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DIVINE HEALING. 



' Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses." 



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A BIBLICAL EXEGESIS OF THE SUBJECT, SHOWING THE RELATIONS 

IT HAS SUSTAINED TO GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE PAST AGES, 

AND ITS PROPER PLACE AMONGST THEM TO-DAY. 



By MICAJAH HENLEY. 



MRS. M. W. KNAPP, 
Mount of Blessings, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



TWT LIBRARY OF 

CONGRESS, 
Two Cowta Received 

AUG. 25 1902 

COPVRKJHT EWTHV 

CLASS ^ XXc. Ho. 
CQ^Y S. 






COPRIGHT, 1902, BY 
MRS. M. W. KNAPP. 



CONTENTS. 

I. A View of God in Nature, 5 

II. A View of God in Grace, 12 

III. The Mosaic and Prophetic Age, 17 

IV. Explanation, 26 

V. The Enemy and. First Conflict, ...... 28 

VI. The Work of Jesus after Returning from 

the Wilderness, 35 

VII. The Disciples before Pentecost, 43 

VIII. Scenes in the Lives of the Twelve Apostles, 45 

IX. Workers Associated with the Twelve 

Apostles, 54 

X. Should Divine Healing Continue to this 

Age? 59 

XI. The Cause of the Present Condition, .... 66 

XII. Agencies Associated with Divine Healing, . 73 

XIII. Who May Expect Divine Healing? 80 

XIV. The Manner of Divine Healing, 85 

XV. Is Divine Healing Needed in this Day? . . 90 

XVI. Closing Argument, 98 

XVII. A Loving Exhortation, 104 

I. Personal Experience, 108 

II. " " in 

III. " " 113 

IV. " " . '." 117 

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DIVINE HEALING. 



CHAPTER I. 
A VIEW OF GOD IN NATURE. 

In order that I may make clear in these articles 
the thoughts which I wish to present, and enable 
the reader to comprehend the truth, as I think I can 
see it plainly revealed in the blessed will and testa- 
ment of our loving Heavenly Father, as He has left 
it to all His dear children, it will be necessary to 
study the twofold means of God's revelation to man : 
God as revealed in nature, and God as revealed in 
grace. 

In many articles w r hich I have read upon this very 
interesting and important subject, these two ways of 
God's revelation and dealing with man have been so 
intermingled that the entire subject became so con- 
fused that the reader was left, at the close, with no 
definite impression as to what might have been in 
the mind of the author. That God is the God of 
nature no one will deny who believes there is a God 
at all. So likewise all who believe that a door of 
mercy and grace has ever been opened to the fallen 

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race of Adam, believe that God is Author of this 
grace. 

God in nature operates and reveals Himself to 
man outside of the realms of the atonement of Jesus 
Christ. But in grace He always reveals Himself in- 
side the extent of the influence of this blessed atone- 
ment upon the cross. 

"The Law was given, or received, by Moses, but 
grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. " 

The term "Divine Healing'' in these articles, as 
I believe it always should, will be applied to God's 
dealings with the race in the realms of grace alone. 
If any are to be divinely healed, it must be by grace. 
That many have been so healed, but few will deny ; 
that many sick people have recovered who have had 
no respect for grace and no faith in its effect upon 
these bodies, is equally true. To say these were 
Divinely healed would be greatly to misuse the term ; 
to take the ground that they were healed independent 
of God's notice or the action of His laws, no one 
dares to say who believes in the supervision of God 
as a loving Father to His dependent children. 

The statement in the Bible, "That it is the glory 
of God to conceal a thing," applies equally to nature 
and grace. 

As things exist in nature to-day, they have largely 
in the same relation existed since the foundation of 
the world; but how woefully ignorant man has been 
of many of these things ! It is only as man has 
searched out these hidden things, which God has 
made, and brought them in proper relationship with 



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one another, that we have been enabled to know of 
their benefit to us. Such is the discovery of the 
mighty power of steam, as it comes from the proper 
relationship of water to fire. These two antagonizing 
forces of nature, two of the most necessary to life 
and comfort, and yet the two most destructive when 
beyond control, are made to produce this power which 
has been of untold benefit to the advancement of 
civilization, and to the commerce of the world, as it 
has been put in action to traverse the land and plow 
through the waters of the mighty deep. Yet how 
silent and inactive this mighty force has lain for cen- 
turies of the past because of the ignorance of man ! 

By the usefulness of electricity, as in the last few 
years it has been discovered and brought into use 
under the intelligent control of man for communica- 
tion and transportation, the far-off citizen of yester- 
day, so to speak, is to-day our next-door neighbor. 
And by the development of the possibilities yet lying 
in the reach of man, of this agency, together with the 
newly-discovered electrical currents of the air, may 
bring us in such relationship and touch with the citi- 
zens of the whole world that we can sit, as it w 7 ere, 
around one common table as one family of our loving 
Heavenly Father. 

The gold, silver, and iron hidden away in the 
mountains in their crude state, have lain there only 
awaiting the coming of man to take them out, and 
through certain processes purify and shape them, 
until they may become his servants to serve him in 
the best possible way. Pearls in the bottom of the 



8 Divine H^aung. 

sea, building stones in the qirarries, coal, oil, and gas 
hidden away in the heart of the earth, had to be 
searched out, means devised by which they might be 
obtained and brought into proper relationship with 
other things, that they might supply the needs of 
man in furnishing him heat and light. 

For supplying man with grains, vegetables, and 
fruits, God has given us the beautiful earth with the 
proper ingredients in the soil for their growth and 
sufficient of these grains, vegetables, and fruits from 
which to start, and has left it within the possibility 
of man to search out and improve, and from these 
to reproduce other kinds, which may still be im- 
proved. And while great improvement has already 
been made, it remains yet to be seen what may be 
accomplished in producing a better quality of these, 
with which to bless mankind. 

So might we speak of the soil itself; for by search- 
ing out the ingredients it contains and the ingredients 
upon which plants feed and grow, and by adding those 
lacking, a much greater amount and finer quality may 
be produced. 

Go with me to the farms, dairies, and stock-pens 
of to-day; mark the great improvement of fowls and 
animals. Man began with what he had, took the wild 
fowl, domesticated it, culled out the inferior, kept 
the best ; from these other breeds were produced, 
larger in size and finer in quality; from these others 
were produced still better; and we know not what 
may yet be produced in the animal kingdom, all this 
improvement being left in the reach of man to per- 



Divine Healing. 9 

form, thereby adding comfort and blessing to him- 
self. Much might be said of the animals, but suffice 
it to say that we are constantly seeing' statements in 
different ways of that which has excelled anything of 
the past. It may be a cow, excelling all other records 
in size or in the amount of milk and butter she will 
produce ; or a horse, in size or the speed at which he 
is able to go or the strength he may be able to exert ; 
or a sheep, exceeding anything of the past in size or 
in the amount of wool produced. 

All this, and much more which might be said, 
would prove to us the goodness of God in placing 
within man's reach inexhaustible possibilities for sup- 
plying himself with the present needs for making him 
happy and giving him great reason for being thank- 
ful and rejoicing in this present state. Had man 
never transgressed God's law, he would certainly 
have been very happy under these circumstances of 
unlimited possibilities. But, alas ! having disobeyed, 
he came under the penalty of death, with all that 
death can mean. All sickness and disease which cause 
death is part of the penalty. Man under the hand of 
an all-wise Creator, who could perfectly adjust the 
eye to light, the ear to sound, the nose to smell, the 
mouth to taste, and the fingers to touch; who had 
made the opposite forces of nature, as cold and heat, 
light and darkness, bitter and sweet, — has found that, 
under the discovery of medical science, God has pro- 
vided a remedy for many of these diseases. And 
under the wonderful advancement which has been 
made along this line, who will dare. to say that, if we 



io Divine Hkaung. 

could properly understand the human body with all 
its diseases on one hand, and on the other compre- 
hend all the possibilities of nature, there might not 
be an antidote or remedy that would greatly relieve, 
if not give power completely to overcome them ? 

But while much has been discovered, how igno- 
rant man may yet be of undiscovered remedies which 
lie in the possibility of his reach ! All the medical 
properties that have been, or may yet be, discovered 
belong to this world. While there is much fraud in 
the many sure cures for all diseases which so plenti- 
fully abound, and much quackery in the profession 
and practice of medicine, still any ordinary mind must 
admit that the discovery of medical science has proven 
one of the great benefactors of the race. Under the 
proper administration of many of these discovered 
properties of nature, of which God is the Maker, much 
pain has been relieved, and many people, stricken 
with diseases, have recovered, where they would 
doubtless have died without them. To say that such 
cases were Divinely healed is to acknowledge that 
every case of recovery under medical remedies is 
Divine healing, which is not altogether true ; and yet 
these discoveries are brought about by the use of 
Divinely created agencies put in man's reach to use. 
And these agencies are used in association with the 
laws of nature by the intelligence of man wholly out- 
side of the realms of grace ; for many eminent phy- 
sicians have been avowed infidels, enemies of the 
religion of Jesus Christ. 

Great as have been the benefits arising from the 



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discoveries already made, or that may yet be made, 
is man left to these agencies alone in combating the 
mighty forces of disease and sickness to which he is 
exposed? If we are left to these agencies alone, and 
the administration of these do not produce Divine 
healing, can there be such a thing? If there is such 
a thing as Divine healing, and it is not brought about 
by the use of any of the remedies found in nature, 
what, then, can be our hope for such a thing, and by 
what means may it be obtained? I answer, Our only 
hope can be found in the effect of the sacrifice upon 
the cross of Him of whom it is said, "He by the grace 
of God tasted death for every man." 



CHAPTER II. 
A VIEW OF GOD IN GRACE. 

Having thus far considered the means of God's 
revelation in nature, we wish to consider the means 
of His revelations in grace, as they related to this 
interesting subject. 

As I approach the discussion of this subject under 
a conscious sense of the mysticism and skepticism of 
the present time, I would ask all who wish prayerfully 
to follow me in these pages, that you, with me, may 
uncover your heads and take off the shoes from your 
feet, realizing that the ground upon which we wish 
to walk is holy ground, and the covering under which 
we wish to go is the canopy of the Divine Presence ; 
that as we walk softly before Him, He may lead us 
to comprehend a little at least of the grand possi- 
bilities opened before us in Him who was wounded 
for our transgressions. "He was bruised for our in- 
iquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, 
and with His stripes we are healed/' Blessed be His 
name ! The first and most important of all questions 
relative to this subject is the foundation upon which 
to predicate our faith ; and if I should fail to establish 
clearly a true foundation, all the future consideration 
of the extent to which it may be applied, and of all 

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Divine Heading. 13 

the agencies, both human and Divine, in any way 
associated therewith, would only be a hopeless task. 

I have already indicated what can alone be the 
foundation for our hope of this precious doctrine ; but 
some will deny me the right to claim even "Him who 
bore our sins in His own body on the tree" for a base 
upon which to stand in defense of the position which 
I wish to take. And if I fail to make tenable my 
position upon this foundation, I shall completely fail 
to find any justifiable ground upon which to stand, 
and will be classed with the necromancers and witches 
of ancient time, and the Christian Scientists of to-day. 

Since the day that the promise was given to the 
mother of all the race, that "the seed of the woman 
shall bruise the serpent's head," all the sacrifices and 
offerings have in some sense been types which have 
pointed to the one great antitype, the sacrifice of 
Jesus Christ upon the cross, by which they could 
alone be beneficial, because in Him was full redemp- 
tion for the race ; and they being used in His stead, 
as prefiguring Him, were effectual in producing, 
largely, the very same results as are obtainable after 
the fullness of time has elapsed, and the sacrifice has 
actually been offered, and all the types and shadows 
have been swallowed up in the great antitype of them 
all, when in Him we can freely receive these blessings 
without the observance of all the types and shadows. 

It will be argued by some, that if in nature God 
has provided a remedy for the diseases of mankind, 
we need no such remedy in grace. 

But we must remember that with all that has been 



14 Divine EUaung. 

discovered along this line, it yet remains to be seen 
whether there is a remedy for all diseases with which 
man is afflicted. It is a positive fact, undeniable by 
any, that no remedy has yet been discovered, or ever 
will be, that will prevent death, or that will rob death 
of his prey, and restore the dead to life and health. 
It is argued, again, that the purpose of God in the 
sacrifice of Jesus Christ was to open a way for man 
into a blessed immortality after death. Just so ; but 
to do so, the sacrifice must entirely cover the effect 
of the death penalty. And could the sacrifice make 
a complete atonement for the penalty of d-eath, with- 
out covering as well the causes which may produce 
death? 

If sickness and disease are, as I have already 
stated, a part of the penalty, why may they not be 
atoned for in the sacrifice of Him who tasted death 
for every man? If the sacrifice was complete, and 
atoned for all the effect of the penalty, sickness and 
disease being a part of it, how can they help being 
under the effect of its influence? 

While sickness is most generally the cause of 
death, does it need be so? Is it God's purpose that 
it should be so? Would it not be better to look 
more to the possibilities of a present attainment under 
the privileges of grace than to look too much to the 
future life? "For this cause was the Son of man 
manifested, to destroy the works of the devil/' "Thou 
shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His peo- 
ple from their sins" (or sin penalty). 



Divine H^aung. 15 

If it is the purpose of God, in Christ Jesus, to de- 
stroy the sin penalty, and sickness and pain being part 
of this penalty, it must be done in this life ; for in the 
life to come there is to be neither sickness nor pain. 
Some will insist that we must cheerfully submit to 
this suffering, because it is necessary, seeing we can 
not escape death; and suffering is necessary to pro- 
duce it. That we can not escape an exit from this 
world is true ; but did not Jesus teach that "he that 
believeth in Me shall never die?" And did He not 
allude to death, as a peaceful repose, as "He 
sleepeth?" 

The seed-germ of everlasting life is in these 
bodies ; and, from this standpoint, it may be said, we 
will never die. Sickness is by no means essential to 
bring about the dissolution of soul and body, known 
as death. Is not Moses the typical man, who might 
be taken as the model, to represent the normal con- 
dition of man in this life? His eyes had not grown 
dim, neither his natural force abated ; but, having 
accomplished his work and run his race, he was taken 
by God from this world to the life beyond, without 
suffering. 

I have thus endeavored to make clear the position 
which, under honest conviction, has forced itself upon 
me. If this position is at all tenable, we shall see the 
fulfillment of it in God's dealing with His people, in 
the types and shadows of the Mosaic and Prophetic 
dispensations, in the life work of Jesus Himself as 
He operated just on the eve of the atonement He 



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was to make, and in the lives of the apostles as they 
worked under the immediate demonstration of the 
atonement which had just been made. 

Let us make the research, and see what are the 
revelations left us along these lines. 



CHAPTER III. 
THE MOSAIC AND PROPHETIC AGE. 

Can we comprehend this statement relative to the 
exit of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage 
to the Land of Promise? "He brought them out 
with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble 
person among their tribes." 

The first proposition may be accounted for, in 
part at least, in that they were to borrow from the 
Egyptians all the gold and silver they could, in shape 
of jewelry and ornaments. But the second clause 
could not have been said of any other similar case in 
the world's history. The entire posterity of twelve 
families lived for a period of over four hundred years, 
during which time it is said of them, "that the more 
they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and 
grew." Such a vast concourse of people, of every age 
and condition of life, and "not one feeble person 
among them !" 

It was the hand of a loving Heavenly Father lead- 
ing His own people from an enemy's country to a 
possession of their own, from a cruel bondage to 
freedom and prosperity, thereby giving all the ages 
yet to come an example the most perfect of any that 
would ever be given, of what might be the purpose 

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of God, through the effect of the atonement of Jesus 
Christ upon the cross, to lead his people up out of 
the dominion of the wicked one, and out of the pen- 
alty of sin, into the possession of their rights and 
privileges in Jesus Christ, in whom they were to be 
complete. And if complete, could it not be said, there 
is not one feeble person within their borders, spirit- 
ually, intellectually, or physically? 

Associated with the above circumstance is the in- 
stitution of the Passover, which became a perpetual 
ordinance of the Jewish Church, and stands out very 
beautifully as one of the clear types of the sacrifice of 
Jesus upon the cross. The death penalty was pro- 
nounced in all the land ; the Lamb became the substi- 
tute ; the blood sprinkled upon the doorposts became 
the token, and the death angel passed over. The 
Passover sacrifice was associated with the yearly 
day of atonement, by which they were acquitted of 
all their sins. Where was the virtue of this sacrifice? 
We find it as we look down through the long vista 
of time yet to come, "when Christ our Passover is 
sacrificed for us." He becomes the substitute; His 
blood, sprinkled upon our hearts by faith, becomes 
the token, and the death penalty is suspended and 
we may go free. 

Can we comprehend anything of the magnitude 
of this sacrificial offering, and what its effect might 
be? It is the sacrifice of the Infinite One, the Sinless 
One, the One of whom the Voice from heaven had 
twice said, "He is My beloved Son." He had lived 
the perfect life, but His time had come. He has al- 



Divixe Healing. 19 

ready passed the garden. He is nailed to the cross, 
suspended between earth and heaven. As the cross 
is dropped into the hole prepared for it in the stone, 
every nerve is shocked, and here begins the awful 
suffering of this occasion. AYe can have no concep- 
tion of what it must have been, as down upon His 
quivering body came the penalty of the sins that had 
been committed in ages of the past, and the sins of 
the people then living, and all the sins of the future 
generations like a mighty torrent upon Him. Under 
the weight of the awful burden that was upon Him, 
He cries out, "My God! My God! why hast Thou 
forsaken Me !" The answer might have come back, 
"That Thou mightest bridge the awful chasm between 
Me and a people under the penalty of death." "He 
trod the wine press alone." 

In the solemness of the occasion the sun refused 
to shine, the stars shut their eyes, and the moon 
veiled her lovely face. The rocks were rent, the earth 
trembled, and all nature mourned in the darkness of 
that sad hour. He cried out, "It is finished!" The 
death penalty had been met, and in those brief 
moments "He, by the grace of God, had tasted death 
for every man." "He bore our sins in His own body 
upon the tree." The sin-offerings of the centuries 
before became virtuous as they typified this great 
event. 

Among the rites of the Jewish religion was one 
sacrifice that applied especially to the leper, and any 
one that was smitten might offer this sacrifice and 
thereby be healed of his leprosy. I ask wherein was 



20 Divine Healing. 

the virtue of this offering, of which the apostle de- 
clares that "the blood of bulls and of goats and the 
ashes of an heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth 
to the purifying of the flesh ?" that is, the body be- 
came healed of this deadly disease. I answer, it was 
because of the atonement of Jesus Christ upon the 
cross, where He bore the penalty of our sins in His 
own body upon the tree ; for it was only a type, and 
no type can supersede its antitype, or that for which 
it stands. 

Some will say, the leprosy was to represent sin. 
So it may represent sin. But while it represents sin, 
it remains true that it was one of the deadly diseases 
of mankind; and while one might survive quite a 
while with this disease, he was dying all the time. 
This being one of the prevalent and worst diseases 
of that time, it may represent the diseases of the body 
as properly as that of sin, or more so; for they had 
the sacrifices for the sin-offering, by which sins were 
to be acquitted; but this was only to be observed 
by those whose bodies were affected with leprosy, for 
their cleansing. 

We have noticed the effect of these sacrifices that 
were incorporated in their mode of worship, and tried 
to show that the real virtue of these sacrifices was 
not in themselves, but in that which they prefigured. 
To make this clearer, let us notice, further. If it was 
in them alone, then the leper could only be healed 
by observing them. 

The Israelites tarried at Mount Sinai eleven 
months, during which time they received the law, 



Divine Healing, 21 

with its many ordinances and its unlimited require- 
ments, reaching out into every condition of life and 
conduct. Here they also constructed the ark of the 
covenant and the tabernacle. Soon after they had 
renewed their journey, Aaron and Miriam spoke evil 
of Moses, because he had married an Ethiopian 
woman. For this evil thing Miriam was smitten with 
leprosy. Aaron besought Moses for her, and Moses 
prayed unto God for her healing. As a punishment 
she was excluded from the congregation seven days. 
Whether the healing was at once or at the end of this 
time, we are not told ; but nothing is recorded about 
the observances of the sacrifices and washings re- 
quired by the law for such healing. If she was healed 
without the observance of these ordinances, it must 
prove there was virtue for healing somewhere else, 
and that somewhere must have been in the sacrifice 
of Jesus upon the cross. 

The healing of Naaman, the Syrian captain, was 
by no performance of the sacrifices of the law, neither 
by the appliances of medical means, but by obedience 
to that which Elisha told him to do. The waters of 
Jordan had never before been so medicated as to 
produce a cure of leprosy, neither after this ; so there 
must have been virtue somewhere ; and this virtue 
must be alone in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the 
cross, where He paid the penalty of death with all its 
agencies. 

Soon after the children of Israel turned back into 
the wilderness, having refused to go over into the 
Promised Land, when they were brought to its bor- 



22 Divine: H^aung. 

ders at Kadesh-barnea, they were attacked by fiery 
serpents, the bite of which produced death. They 
besought Moses for deliverance, and he was com- 
manded to make a serpent of brass and put it on a 
pole, so that all who were bitten could look upon it ; 
and as many as looked were healed. Was the virtue 
for healing in the serpent ? Had it been so medicated 
that a mere look upon it would transmit an antidote 
for the poison sufficient for a recovery? I think 
not. But how suggestive are the words of Jesus 
when He says, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the 
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted 
up : that whosoever believeth in Him should not 
perish, but have eternal life/' It was a type, of which 
the Son of man is the antitype. If the type had such 
virtue as to heal all the bodies thus filled with poison, 
how much more must be the virtue of Him to whom 
all the types and shadows pointed! 

As the serpent was lifted up, so must the Son of 
man be. How many beautiful lessons may be drawn 
from this ! The serpent was made of brass. Brass 
is composed of copper and zinc. The Son of man 
was both human and Divine. The serpent's bite rep- 
resents sin. Its poison is coursing through our moral 
being, and if not eradicated, will sooner or later pro- 
duce death. Jesus Christ upon the cross is the anti- 
dote for this poison of sin; all who will, may believe 
in Him and be saved. What beautiful lessons ! How 
orthodox ! O that all might come and be saved ! 
How often have we heard it, and the glad news has 
filled our hearts with rejoicing! Why not carry the 



Divine Healing. 23 

simile out in its most natural form ? "As the serpent 
was lifted up, so must the Son of man be." 

The serpent was lifted up in the wilderness to heal 
the bodies of all who were bitten of a fiery serpent, 
the poison of which would soon produce death; so 
the Son of man must be lifted up, that, having taken 
our infirmities and borne our sicknesses, the sick and 
suffering may believe in Him and be healed. The 
brazen serpent became virtuous to them in healing 
their bodies from this poison, as it represented the 
sacrifice which Jesus Christ was to make when He 
became lifted up; thereby becoming the source of 
their healing by the type of the brazen serpent. Why 
is He not yet the great Physician to whom man 
may come, who is diseased, and dying of the many 
diseases which are the consequence of sin, and are 
raging in these bodies, causing racking pain and 
scorching fever? 

The record concerning Asa, one of the kings of 
Judah, was that he did many good things, and won 
many battles over his enemies, while he trusted in 
God alone. But as his trust in God became imper- 
fect, he put confidence elsewhere, and was defeated 
by his enemies, and was troubled with wars. His 
trust was not only shaken in God for the defense of 
his kingdom against other nations, but in regard to 
God's care of him personally; and when he became 
diseased he sought for relief from physicians, and 
not from God. His disease became worse, and, med- 
ical means failing to give relief, in about two years 
he died. The inference of the story is, that if he had 



24 Divine; Healing. 

trusted in God alone his kingdom would have been 
successful over its enemies, and had he sought the 
Lord in his sickness, he might have recovered. The 
reason why he might have been healed in this way, 
is that there is healing virtue in the grace of the Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

One more circumstance to which I wish to allude 
in this connection, and then I shall leave the argu- 
ment. Many more incidents of like character might 
be referred to ; but if these already considered do not 
prove for me a tenable ground upon which to stand, 
all others would likewise fail. The circumstance re- 
ferred to is that of the Shunammite's son. In this 
case the disease had run its course and produced 
death. The reason I wish to consider this is to show 
that the work of the law and the prophets of God in 
this ancient time was complete in some respects, as 
they worked in obedience to God, and having respect 
alone to the offers of His grace, through Jesus Christ, 
as it was in the dispensation to follow. 

The Prophet Elisha had been constrained to show 
his love and respect and appreciation of the woman 
for her kindness in providing him a home to be used 
at his own pleasure ; and had promised her a son, to 
add to her comfort and enjoyment in this life. This 
promise was fulfilled, and when the child had grown 
to be a lad, while in the field, he was suddenly taken 
with a severe pain in his head. He was carried to 
the house, and soon died. His mother, in this great 
affliction, went to Elisha in great haste for comfort. 
He sent his servant to bring back the child to life. 



Divine Healing. 25 

But she would not be content unless Elisha should 
come with her himself. 

When Elisha came to the house he found the dead 
child lying upon his own bed. He shut himself in the 
room alone with the child, and prayed. Then he 
stretched himself upon the child. His mouth upon 
the mouth of the child, his eyes upon the child's eyes, 
and his hands upon the child's hands. This prayer 
and action only produced warmth in the body of the 
child. He then walked to and fro in the room, prob- 
ably in more earnest and persistent prayer. Then, 
stretching himself again upon him, the child sneezed 
seven times and opened his eyes, and Elisha pre- 
sented him alive to his mother. 



CHAPTER IV. 
EXPLANATION. 

Thus far our examination has been in the Mosaic 
and Prophetic Age. This is a typical age, and typifies 
the Christian dispensation, which was to follow it ; 
and, being typical or representative, it must keep 
within the bounds of that which it represents in all 
things. 

The things we have seen in this dispensation we 
must see reproduced in the one to follow, if our argu- 
ment is to become convincing. If in the life of Jesus 
Christ, as He worked just upon the eve of the sacri- 
fice which He was to make, as the fulfillment of all 
types and shadows and prophetic deeds which had 
been done in His name in the past, we are enabled 
to see sins forgiven, lepers cleansed, the diseased 
healed, and the dead raised, who must soon die again, 
we can more conclusively than ever claim the force 
of our argument. That He who bore our sins in His 
own body on the tree, thereby tasting death for every 
man, met the penalty of death, and sickness and 
disease is part of that penalty. 

Before entering upon the consideration of the life 
work of Jesus Christ, I wish to make clear, if pos- 
sible, this one thought, that He came a substitute. 

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Divine Healing. 27 

He came to take the place of another. Man was 
under the death penalty, and, in all the effect of His 
work and actions amongst men, He must of neces- 
sity keep within the bounds of the extent of the 
atonement which He w r as about to make. 

God is good ; but, just as well, the decree had 
gone forth, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." All 
sin must have its penalty, and, before the guilty can 
be acquitted, the penalty must be met. So, in acquit- 
ting the effects of sin, whatever they may be, the fact 
is proved that the effect of the sin has been, or will 
be, atoned for in the sacrifice of Himself upon the 
cross. 



CHAPTER V. 
THE ENEMY AND FIRST CONFLICT. 

"For this cause the Son of man was manifested, 
that He might destroy the works of the devil." 

Sin, with its effects, was the work of the devil. 
"By one man sin entered into the world, and death 
by sin." The devil being the avowed enemy of God, 
and man being God's handiwork, made in His own 
image and for His own glory, this enemy of God 
becomes man's enemy. By his strategy he deceived 
man, and in this way became the author of the trans- 
gression ; and the effect of the fall is his work. 

Again, we read that the purpose of Jesus was to 
"destroy him that hath the power of death, that is 
the devil." By this we discover that it is not only his 
works, but he himself that Jesus came to destroy. 

After a private life of thirty years, of which we 
know but very little, He came to John to be bap- 
tized of him in Jordan. At the close of this baptismal 
ceremony the Spirit descended upon Him in the 
bodily shape of a dove, and a Voice from heaven 
introduced Him to the world, saying, "This is My 
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Peter 
also declares how "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth 
with the Holy Ghost and power." 

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Being now fully prepared for His work, where 
does He begin? The apostle tells us, "He was led 
of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the 
devil." Thus, being alone in the wilderness, except 
for the company of wild beasts, the devil assails Him, 
and for forty days and nights, at least, the conflict 
continues. From Matthew we would infer that at the 
end of the forty days the conflict began ; but in Mark 
and Luke we read, "He was forty days being tempted 
of the devil." 

Just what this conflict was, no one may be able 
to know or describe. It was a conflict with the devil 
and all the powers of his Satanic majesty. He who 
had once ruled one-third of the inhabitants of heaven 
had probably been one of the three archangels, equal 
with Michael or Gabriel, and having revolted in 
heaven, a conflict ensued in which he was overcome, 
and cast out with all his followers. 

He attacked the authorities of heaven to over- 
throw them, and get possession thereof; but, failing 
in this, he now proposes to overthrow God's govern- 
ment with man upon the earth. By his deception he 
gets man to rebel against the commands of God, and 
thereby he was displaced from his beautiful home in 
the Garden of Eden ; and, having been driven out, a 
flaming sword was placed at the entrance, lest man 
should return, eat of the tree of life, and live forever, 
separated from God and the dominion of His govern- 
ment, and be left wholly under the control of this 
enemy of God. 

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30 Divine Healing. 

that the first man born into the world became a mur- 
derer of his own brother. The effect of his continued 
influence is so far to change the condition of man 
from his proper and intended relationship with his 
Maker, that it only took about fifteen centuries for 
the wickednees of man to become so great that we 
are told in Holy Writ "that it repented God that He 
had made man," and He concluded to destroy him 
from the face of the earth. "Howbeit Noah found 
grace in the sight of the Lord/' and God gave him an 
opportunity to be saved from the impending destruc- 
tion, which was to come upon the whole earth. 

The apostle tells us, "God waited in the days of 
Noah, while the ark was preparing/' staying the in- 
tended deluge until the ark was completed, wherein 
Noah and his family were saved. 

Thus Noah, through a long period of perfect 
obedience to what God had told him to do, by per- 
sistent toil and labor, in which nothing could turn 
him from the perfect pattern which God had given 
him of the ark, was rescued from the power of this 
enemy; and this great destruction by which the citi- 
zens of the world were destroyed. Noah thereby be- 
came a nucleus from which God might use another 
means of government, in which His people might be 
loyal to Him and rescued from the power of this 
wicked one. 

From the above, it becomes apparent that, in the 
antediluvian age, or from the beginning of man's 
history until the flood, the devil had almost com- 
plete control of the people, and worked their entire 
destruction. 



Divine; Healing. 31 

Soon after the flood God chose from the people 
a man from which to raise up to Himself a people 
who would be loyal to Him, and to whom He might 
reveal His power in keeping them from the power 
of this wicked one. So Abram was called of God. 

As the means used by the enemy to bring about 
man's fall was unbelief in God, which led to disobedi- 
ence of His commands, so the avenue of man's return 
to God must be belief in Him which will lead to obedi- 
ence of His commands. It is said of Abram that "he 
believed God." He was promised a posterity, the 
extent of which was to be unnumbered, while as yet 
he had no child. For twenty-five years he was com- 
pelled to wait for the promise, while from human 
probabilities it was becoming more and more impos- 
sible all the time. Having thus continued to believe 
God, a child was given him. In the course of a few 
years Abraham was asked of God to take this son, 
the only hope of the fulfillment of God's promise, and 
offer him as a burnt sacrifice. Abraham, with un- 
shaken confidence in God, obeyed, and while in the 
last act of the accomplishment of this sacrifice, his 
hand was stayed, and a substitute provided. The 
record given of him is that "by faith Abraham, when 
he was tried, offered up Isaac." Thus, not stagger- 
ing at God's promises through unbelief, he became 
the father of the faithful. 

From such a man, with such demonstrations of 
confidence and faith, God raised up to Himself a peo- 
ple, led them out of an enemy's country and from a 
cruel bondage, with demonstrations of great power, 



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to a beautiful country of their own, flowing with milk 
and honey. God gave them a Law under the mighty 
demonstrations of Sinai, where, it is said, the sight 
was so terrible that even Moses feared and quaked. 
This Law embraced their form of government and 
their system of worship. 

Under the administration of Solomon, their third 
king, God gave them an established seat of govern- 
ment at Jerusalem in the completion of the Temple. 
Under this form of government and worship they 
became a mighty people — mighty in power, mighty in 
wisdom, mighty in wealth — and the fear and dread 
of them was upon all the nations of the world. But 
alas ! in the height of their power and glory, Solomon, 
their king, was led away, by the subtlety of this 
great enemy of God, to a disbelief in God, which led 
him to disobey His commands ; and he took to himself 
wives of the heathen nations around him. By dis- 
obeying God's laws he forfeited the protection and 
blessings of God upon him and his people, and, under 
the immediate reign of his son, strife and division 
entered into the nation. The kingdom was rent 
asunder and two governments established, and, be- 
fore many years, Jerusalem, with all her former glory 
and beauty, was taken by the king of Babylon, and 
the Temple, where God's presence was to dwell, was 
destroyed. 

Without following the history of their times of 
repentance, and returning to God by obedience to 
His law, and their times of prosperity, and again their 
downfall by sin and transgression, suffice it to say 



Divine; Healing. 33 

that finally the ten tribes which established a king- 
dom under Jeroboam, in rebellion against Solomon's 
son, were lost among the nations of the earth. And 
while Judah was preserved, they so far departed from 
God that the Holy Records close concerning them 
four hundred years before the coming of Jesus Christ 
to the world. Upon His advent into the world He 
found them so far corrupted by sin and transgression, 
having changed God's laws to suit their own conven- 
ience, that while they professed to be His children, 
and the seed of Abraham, they rejected Him whom 
God had sent unto them, and declared "they would 
not have this man to rule over them." 

"He came unto His own, and His own received 
Him not." 

They became the rejecters of the Son of God, 
and w T hile claiming to be God's servants and the chil- 
dren of Abraham, He tells them plainly that they are 
the children of their father, the devil, and the works 
of their father they will do. While still claiming to 
be children of God, they finally became the betrayers 
and murderers and crucifiers of Jesus Christ, the Son 
and Sent of God. They w T ere so completely under the 
power and dominion of the wicked one that they were 
only awaiting the consummation of their own de- 
struction, when they should be driven from Jerusalem 
without a government or a language, and scattered 
among the nations of the earth, thus to remain in a 
degraded state, yet, under the mercy of God, pre- 
served a distinct race of people, awaiting their final 
triumphant return when the times of the Gentiles 
shall be fulfilled. 3 



34 Divine; HsaunG. 

While thus reviewing the influence, which this 
enemy had exerted, I do it in no pessimistic way ; for 
time would fail me to tell of the triumphs of God's 
children, who, through faith in Him, overcame the 
power of this wicked one, and are saved in the blessed 
paradise above. I do it that we may better compre- 
hend the wonderful power this enemy has swayed 
in the past, and the effort he might now make as 
Jesus meets him alone in the wilderness. 

Much might be said by way of imagination or 
speculation as to the manner of this conflict, as Satan 
marshals his forces and charges upon the meek and 
lowly Nazarene, only to be repelled and driven from 
the field, to marshal his forces and charge upon Him 
in another way, to be defeated again. 

Thus a forty-days' conflict continued, during 
which time Satan had brought to bear upon Jesus all 
the possibilities of his power, only to be defeated 
again and again, until all his forces were exhausted. 
The temptations being ended, the conflict closed, by 
the devil withdrawing, with all his followers from the 
field of battle, a conquered, defeated, and destroyed 
foe ; ever afterward acknowledging when in the pres- 
ence of Jesus, "We know Thee who Thou art." Thou 
Son of God, our Conqueror, we are only awaiting the 
time of the execution of Thy wrath and Thy venge- 
ance upon us. 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE WORK OF JESUS AFTER RETURNING 
FROM THE WILDERNESS. 

JKSUS having met the arch-foe and enemy of God 
and man, and defeated him, and in a sense destroyed 
him, He returns from the wilderness in the power 
of the Spirit, into Galilee, and begins the destruction 
of the works of the devil, by going about "teaching 
in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the 
kingdom, healing all manner of sickness and all man- 
ner of disease among the people." "And His fame 
went throughout all Syria, and they brought unto 
Him all sick people that were taken with divers dis- 
eases and torments, and those which were possessed 
of devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that 
had palsy, and He healed them." 

Peter tells us, "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth 
with the Holy Ghost and power, and He went about 
doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of 
the devil. " This oppression was the work of the 
devil, and Jesus came to destroy his work. How 
could He do it? Justice demanded that sin should 
have its penalty, and Jesus could only relieve where 
the penalty had been paid, and He must operate 

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wholly within the bounds of the penalty that had been 
met, in the sacrifice of Himself, which was soon to be 
made upon the cross. In that sacrifice he met the 
death penalty, and, "by the grace of God, tasted death 
for every man." 

Passing over the Sermon on the Mount as re- 
corded by Matthew, let us consider the incidents re- 
corded in the eighth chapter. Coming down from 
the mount, great multitudes followed Him. "There 
came a leper, worshiping Him and saying, Lord, if 
Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean. Jesus put 
forth His hand and touched him, saying, I will ; be 
thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was 
cleansed." 

Going into Capernaum a centurion came beseech- 
ing Him that He would come and heal his servant, 
who was at home grievously tormented with palsy. 
When Jesus told him He would come and heal him, 
the centurion forbade Him troubling Himself to 
come to his home ; "but only speak the word and my 
servant shall be healed." Jesus told him to go his 
way, and his servant should be healed, as he had be- 
lieved, and it was so. Going into Peter's home, He 
found his wife's mother sick of a fever. He touched 
her, and the fever left her, and she arose and minis- 
tered unto them. 

"And when even was come, they brought unto 
Him many that were possessed with devils, and He 
cast out the wicked spirits, and healed all that were 
sick." Why did He do it? How could He do it? 
Listen while He tells His own story: "That it might 



Divixe Healing. 37 

be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet Esaias, 
when he said, Himself took our infirmities, and bare 
our sicknesses. " 

Yes, we remember where Isaiah said, "He was 
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for 
our iniquities," that thereby we might escape the pen- 
alty of these. We have had confidence to come to 
Him by repentance and faith for the forgiveness of 
our sins, and as "the chastisement of our peace was 
upon Him," we have believed we could have the peace 
of God in our souls by the effect of His atoning blood. 
But that His stripes were for the healing of these 
bodies, we have not so well understood. Jesus would 
here tell us that the prophet was not mistaken when 
he uttered these words ; and "the reason that I can 
so freely heal all that are sick, I am to bear all these 
sicknesses and all these diseases in My own body 
upon the cross." 

Without noticing specially the stilling of the temp- 
est, or the healing of the two men possessed with 
fierce devils, which was only a further demonstration 
of the extent of the operations of His power, we will 
notice the incident given in the beginning of the ninth 
chapter. 

When Jesus was in a house with a great throng 
of people about Him, four men brought a man sick 
with the palsy, carrying him upon a bed. They were 
so confident that, if they could get him in the pres- 
ence of Jesus, he would be healed, that, finding no 
way of entrance to the house on account of the 
throng of people present, they took him to the roof 



38 Divine Healing. 

of the house, and, removing the tiling, let him down 
into the presence of Jesus. When He saw the sick 
man, and the faith of these men, necessary to pro- 
duce such effort, "He said to the sick of the palsy, 
Thy sins are forgiven thee/' 

For this expression He is accused privately of 
blasphemy. As these accusers claimed no one could 
forgive sins but God, Jesus perceiving their thoughts 
said unto them, "Why think ye evil in your hearts?" 
"For whether is it easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven 
thee, or to say Arise and walk?" "But that ye may 
know that the Son of man hath power on the earth 
to forgive sins," I say unto this sick and sinful man, 
"Arise, take up thy bed and go unto thy house ;" and 
he arose, forgiven of his sins, healed of his disease, 
and departed. Here Jesus claims that the forgive- 
ness of sins is as easy as the healing of the body, and, 
vice versa, that the healing of the body is as easy as 
the forgiveness of sins. Why? Because they were 
both alike to be borne of Him in the sacrifice which 
He was to make upon the cross. In this incident the 
healing of the body is made an evidence to the skeptic 
of His power to forgive sins. His merely speaking 
the words, "Thy sins are forgiven thee," could not 
in itself prove to any one that the man under penalty 
of transgressing God's law was acquitted of his guilt 
and before God stood innocent; but to see a man 
prostrate and entirely helpless, under the power of 
disease, lying before Jesus, because of the effort of 
four men, immediately arise in the power of his own 
bodily strength, take up the couch on which he lay, 



Divine Healing. 39 

and not only walk himself, but carry it with him, all 
because Jesus had said to him, "Thy sins are forgiven 
thee," must be evidence to any rational mind that 
Divine power accompanied His words, and the out- 
ward evidence becomes proof of the inward work of 
the acquittal of his sins. 

I now wish to consider another incident in the life 
of Jesus, both for the force of its own lessons and 
that which is associated with it; that is, the story of 
Jairus's daughter. While it is given in Matthew, I 
wish, for the plainness of the narrative, to refer to 
the account given by Mark in the fifth chapter. 

This man came to Jesus on behalf of his only 
child, a girl twelve years old. Matthew tells us she 
was dead ; Mark and Luke both say she was lying 
at the point of death when he came to Jesus. 

The father came, falling at Jesus' feet, and with 
great earnestness besought Him to come and lay His 
hands upon his dying child that she might recover. 
Jesus was touched with sympathy, as He always was, 
with the heart-stricken father, and tells him He will 
go with him and heal her. But, having started with 
him, upon the way an incident occurred by which they 
were detained, and, while thus detained, a messenger 
came to inform them that the child was dead. To 
comfort the further stricken father, Jesus says to 
him, "Be not afraid ; only believe." After dismissing 
the great throng of people, and forbidding them to 
follow Him further, He takes Peter and James and 
John, and comes to the home of Jairus, where great 
lamentation and mourning were being made. Jesus 



40 Divine Healing. 

asks, "For what is all this ado? The damsel is not 
dead, but sleepeth : and they laughed Him to scorn." 

Having put the scorners out of the house, He 
takes the father and mother of the child, and the 
three disciples which were with Him, and goes into 
the chamber where the child was lying. Jesus takes 
her by the hand, saying, "Damsel, I say unto thee, 
Arise," and she straightway arose, and walked. Why 
could Jesus truthfully say she was only asleep? Be- 
cause in Him was the power and right, to cause her 
to arise from the dead, as easily as nature would 
cause her to awaken from the quiet repose of 
slumber. 

Let us notice the cause for which Jesus was de- 
tained while upon the way to Jairus's home. Upon 
the journey He suddenly stopped and asked, "Who 
touched Me?" The disciples were surprised at such 
a question, for He was pressed by the great throng 
on every side. But the touch was not that of a jam- 
ming crowd, but the touch of one full of faith in Him 
for the restoration of a diseased and suffering body — 
one who had resorted to many physicians, only to 
have her pain intensified by their treatment, getting 
no relief therefrom, but only growing worse. Not 
only this, but her means had been exhausted, and any 
further hope of relief from this source was cut off. 

In this sad and helpless condition she believes if 
she can but touch the hem of the garment of Jesus, 
she will be healed. Thus full of faith, in the midst 
of the throng she presses her way toward Him, and 
when in reach of the Master she lifts the hand of 



Divine Heaeing. 41 

faith and touches the hem of His garment, and her 
whole body is thrilled as with an electric shock, and 
she is made whole. 

Why should Jesus so easily perceive a mere touch 
of His garment in a pressing throng? He tells us 
the reason, which solves the great question of that 
day, and of all ancient time, and of all time to come, 
for all those who have ever been, or ever will be, 
Divinely healed : "Virtue is gone out of Me," and 
some one has felt the effect of it. The virtue of the 
atoning blood of the Son of man, being transmitted 
into these diseased bodies, can work their restoration. 
It is not faith healing, though faith is an essential 
agency used in its accomplishment. It is not mind 
healing, though the mind may be called into an un- 
usual state of activity in bringing it about. It is not 
the working out of natural causes by us of medical 
properties. Divine healing is by the transmission 
alone of the virtue of the sacrifice of the Divine Son 
of God unto these diseased bodies, to which it acts as 
an antidote, and the power of disease is destroyed, 
and they are quickened thereby into a normal state 
of health and activity. 

Reflections. 

As interesting as is the study of the life of Jesus, 
I have now covered the ground which I wish at 
present to investigate. Other references will be made 
to His work in discussing other points ; but further 
investigation would only be a repetition of the points 
already made. 



42 Divine Healing. 

I have remarked that all the types and shadows 
of ancient time pointed to the coming of Jesus Christ ; 
and the sacrifices and offerings associated with the 
worship of the Jews, all represented the sacrifice of 
Jesus upon the cross. The effect which they might 
be able to bring about must be seen in His life work, 
as He represented the effect of His own sacrifice 
amongst men. 

As under the Law and sacrifices we saw sins for- 
given, lepers cleansed, and diseased bodies healed, 
and the dead raised, so in the study of His life work, 
we have not been disappointed in seeing all these 
things reproduced by Him. 

Sins have been forgiven, lepers cleansed, the dis- 
eased bodies healed, and the dead have been raised. 
Glory to His name ! 



CHAPTER VII. 
THE DISCIPLES BEFORE PENTECOST. 

To make this investigation complete, before tak- 
ing up the lives of the aspostles as they operated 
under the full effect of the atonement after it had 
been made, and after Jesus had ascended to the 
Father, and the promised gift of the Holy Ghost had 
been received, we must notice briefly the work of the 
disciples whom Jesus had called to associate with 
Him and help Him in His work. 

Jesus, having spent the night in prayer, called 
unto Him His twelve disciples in the morning. ''He 
gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them 
out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all man- 
ner of disease." He not only gave them this power, 
but sent them forth, and told them to use it, which 
they did ; and never were villages and communities 
so free from sickness and disease as when Jesus and 
His disciples went up and down through Galilee, Sa- 
maria, and Judea, with the good news of the incom- 
ing kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus* Christ. 

It soon became apparent that the twelve disciples 
would not be able to do all the work Jesus wished to 
be done; and seventy others were called and sent 
forth, with the same instructions that had been given 

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44 Divine; H^aunG. 

the twelve. They were told specially to heal the sick. 
When these seventy returned from their first trip 
in this service, they reported that "the devils were 
subject to us through Thy name." Jesus said unto 
them, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 
Behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents 
and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, 
and nothing shall by any means hurt you ; yet in this 
rejoice not, but rather rejoice because your names 
are written in heaven." By these references given us 
of the work of these disciples as they labored with 
Jesus, we see that they were enabled to do with the 
power He gave them, using it in His name, the same 
works which He Himself was doing. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

SCENES IN THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE 
APOSTLES. 

Having reviewed in the previous pages a few of 
the incidents connected with the life of Jesus, and 
the sending out of His disciples, let us notice one 
expression in the scene of the cross, and pass on. 

Before expiring, Jesus cried out, "It is finished !" 
Thus ended the tragical death of Jesus upon the 
cross, by which He became the "one sacrifice for sins 
forever/' Thereby He completed the atonement, as 
far as the sacrifice for sins was concerned, for a 
fallen race, and bridged the awful chasm which sin 
had made between an offended God and an offending 
race which He had created, thereby opening a way 
by which man might return and be restored into fel- 
lowship and harmony with his Maker, and all that 
was lost by sin in rebellion might be restored by 
obedience through grace. 

Passing the scene of His burial and resurrection, 
and forty days' sojourn, and final ascension, let us 
gather with the disciples at Jerusalem as they await 
the coming of the promise of the Father, which Jesus 
had told them they should soon receive. 

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46 Divine; Healing. 

"When the day of Pentecost was fully come," 
which was fifty days after the Passover Feast, at 
which time Jesus had been crucified, their expecta- 
tions were realized in the reception of the baptism 
with the Holy Ghost. 

As the descent of the Spirit was the crowning 
event in the final preparation of Jesus for His mis- 
sion, so the baptism of the Spirit completed the prepa- 
ration and qualification of the disciples to enter upon 
their mission ; for Jesus had told them to tarry till He 
should come ; for with His coming they should re- 
ceive power. They were now fully prepared to enter 
upon the work of being the representatives of a 
glorious dispensation, of which all that had been be- 
fore was only a faint foretaste. 

Peter, to whom Jesus had given the keys of the 
kingdom of heaven, now becomes spokesman in de- 
fense of the disciples, for their unusual conduct under 
the exhilarating influence of the filling with the Holy 
Ghost. He declares this drunkenness is not of wine, 
for it is too early in the day. This is only the ful- 
fillment of that which the Prophet Joel had spoken, 
"That in the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon 
all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall 
prophesy, your young men shall see visions, and your 
old men shall dream dreams ; and also upon the ser- 
vants, and upon the handmaids in those days will I 
pour out My Spirit." 

In his defense, he turned their thoughts to Jesus 
of Nazareth, and the life which He had lived, and the 
signs and wonders which He had performed. He 



Divine Hsaung. 47 

told them they had rebelled against Him, and had 
been His betrayers and murderers, and had caused 
Him to be crucified, but God had raised Him from 
the dead. Before he was through preaching, such 
was the convincing power of the Holy Ghost, under 
whose authority these words were spoken, that great 
conviction seized the hearts of the people, and they 
cried out, "What shall we do?" Peter told them "to 
repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ 
for the remission of your sins, and ye shall receive 
the gift of the Holy Ghost." By evening three thou- 
sand were converted. Their sins were forgiven them, 
and they stood acquitted of the penalty of them before 
God. Under the administration of this gospel, fear 
came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs 
were done by the apostles. 

As Peter and John were going up to the Temple 
one afternoon to worship, they found, lying at the 
gate, a man who had all his lifetime been a cripple, 
unable to help himself, and who was daily brought to 
this place to ask of the people entering into the tem- 
ple assistance by which he might live. 

As he asked help of Peter and John, Peter said 
to him, "Look on us ;" and as his eyes were fixed 
upon them, expecting something, Peter said to him, 
"I have no money, but I have power by which thou 
canst be delivered from thy deformity, and this I 
give unto thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Naza- 
reth, rise up and walk." Taking hold of him, he 
lifted him upon his feet, thereby demonstrating his 
own faith in the certainty of his being healed. In this 



48 Divine Healing. 

act his feet and ankle-bones became strong, and his 
deformity was gone, and he, leaping up, went forth 
"walking and leaping and praising God." 

This little occurrence caused quite a commotion 
among the people ; and as they all came gathering 
together, it gave Peter a good opportunity to preach 
them another sermon. He asked them why they 
should be so astonished or look so earnestly on him 
and John, as if they, by their own holiness or power 
had made this man to walk. He then declared unto 
them how God had glorified His Son Jesus, whom 
they had delivered up and denied Him in the pres- 
ence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him 
go, and that they had desired a murderer granted to 
them, and that they had killed the Prince of Life, 
whom God raised from the dead, and it was by His 
name that this man now stood before them healed. 
"Yea, it is by the effect of His sacrifice upon the 
cross, by faith in the virtue thereof, He hath this per- 
fect soundness in the presence of you all. But as in 
ignorance ye did it, you may have forgiveness if you 
will only repent and believe in Him." Such was the 
effect upon the people that, ere he was through 
preaching, many believed in Jesus and were forgiven 
and converted, and the number is given as five thou- 
sand. 

The feeling was now so great against them, be- 
cause they had helped this poor fellow out of his sad 
condition, that people laid hold of Peter and John, 
and kept them until morning, when they were to be 
tried. In the morning, when the rulers of the people 



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and elders of Israel were gathered together they were 
brought forth and set in their midst, and were asked, 
"By what power or authority have you done this?" 
Then Peter, full of the Holy Ghost, said unto them : 
"II we be examined this day because of the kindness 
we showed this helpless man, by the good deed we 
performed in helping him, be it known unto you all, 
that the means by which it was done is in the name 
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, but 
whom God raised from the dead ; and by the applied 
virtue of this sacrifice doth this man stand before 
you whole. Neither is there salvation in any other 
source, For there is none other name given under 
heaven or among men whereby we must be saved, 
either from our sin, or these bodies be divinely 
healed." 

The whole force of the argument used in this de- 
fense is, that all power by which this act has been 
done is in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth ; and 
he carries the argument further, and declares that He 
is the only source of hope of salvation from sin, and 
the means of the accomplishment of both is blended 
together in this one source. 

This is the third time Peter had told the council, 
"Ye are the murderers of Jesus. Ye caused Him to 
be crucified." And when they saw the boldness of 
the disciples and the demonstrations of divine power, 
which they could not deny — for this man was forty 
years old, and had been deformed from his birth — 
they threatened the disciples, and charged them to 
speak no more in the name of Jesus. All the answer 

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50 Divine; Healing. 

they could get was, "We will obey God rather than 
man." 

Being dismissed from the Council, they went to 
their own company, and were soon in the midst of a 
glorious prayer service, where they prayed for grace 
to enable them to continue their boldness in defense 
of the truth, and that more signs and wonders might 
be accomplished in the name of the Holy Child Jesus. 
Great power was manifested at this time, and the, 
place where they were assembled was shaken, and 
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. 

By this time those who had believed and had been 
forgiven were a multitude, and great power and great 
grace was upon the people. Under the blessed rela- 
tionship growing out of this fellowship of believers 
a common fund was rapidly increasing, and many 
who had possessions sold them, and gave the money 
to the disciples to put into this fund. 

We are told that a man and his wife concluded 
to sell a possession, and give what they should re- 
ceive for it into this fund. The sale was rather pri- 
vate, and no one was supposed to know just what 
they received for it. They held a consultation with 
each other, and decided to keep back part of the 
money, and bring a part of it and present it to the 
disciples as the full amount, thereby putting them- 
selves in equal relationship with others who had given 
all, and still retain a sum of their own upon which 
they might depend. 

Before God dissembling is impossible, and it is 
very unsafe before His anointed servants. Peter 



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asked Ananias, when he brought the money, if that 
was the full amount. He assured him that it was. 
He then asked him how he could be so false, and told 
him he had not brought all the money, and the lie 
he had told them was not to them alone, but to the 
Holy Ghost, and that immediate death would be the 
penalty for the offense ; and Ananias fell down at 
Peter's feet dead, as likewise did his wife in a few 
hours afterward ; and they were carried out and 
buried. 

"Great fear was upon all the Church, and upon all 
Jerusalem and the country round about, as they heard 
these things, and believers were the more added to 
the Lord, multitudes both men and women," who 
believed in Jesus and had their sins washed away in 
His precious blood, and were filled with the Holy 
Ghost. "And many signs and wonders were done 
by the apostles, . . . insomuch that sick folks were 
brought and placed along the sides of the streets, 
on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of 
Peter might fall upon them." From the country and 
villages round about the sick and suffering ones were 
brought, "and they were healed every one." 

By this time such indignation had arisen against 
the disciples that they were laid hold of and cast into 
prison, and made secure within its inclosure. But 
they were so in •harmony with heaven that angels 
took off their chains, and opened the prison doors, 
and told them to go on boldly with their work of 
preaching to the people the words of life and salva- 
tion. When the Council was called in the morning, 



52 Divine: He:aung. 

they sent to the prison to get them; but they were 
not there, and, when found, were in the Temple 
teaching the people. From thence they were taken 
by the officers and brought before the Council, where 
they were asked if they were not forbidden to teach 
any more in the name of Jesus, and that instead of 
obeying this command they had filled all Jerusalem 
with their doctrine, and were proving to the people 
in a convincing way that the authorities were guilty 
of this Man's (Jesus) blood. Peter only answered, 
"We are obeying God," and for the fourth time 
made the same defense, "that God raised up Jesus, 
whom ye slew and hanged on a tree." "Him hath 
God exalted to be a Savior and to give repentance 
and forgiveness of sins to Israel, and we are wit- 
nesses of these things, as is also the Holy Ghost, 
whom God has given to all who obey Him." 

When the Council had heard Peter's defense, they 
became so enraged that they consulted together how 
they might slay Peter and his companion. But finally, 
by beating and further threatening them, they let 
them go. "But daily in the temple, and in every 
house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus." 

The Church was not only rapidly increasing, but 
the opposition grew more severe against it all the 
time. Soon the persecution burst out in such a way 
that the disciples were scattered from Jerusalem. 
They went everywhere, in country and villages, 
preaching the same doctrine, and continuing the same 
line of wonderful works. 

"It came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all 



Divine Healing. 53 

quarters, he came down to the saints which dwelt at 
Lydda," and while at this place he found a man who 
had kept his bed for eight years, being afflicted with 
the palsy. "And Peter said unto him, ^Eneas, Jesus 
Christ maketh thee whole : arise, and make thy bed. 
And he arose immediately." Not far from Lydda 
was Joppa, and at this place a very good and philan- 
thropic woman had sickened and died. After her 
death, Peter was sent for to come and see her. When 
he came into the chamber where she w 7 as, he beheld 
the great sorrow manifest because of her death. He 
put them all out of the room, and knelt down and 
prayed, and turning to the lifeless body, he said, 
"Tabitha, arise ;" and she opened her eyes and sat 
up ; and he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then, 
calling the company, he presented her to them in life 
and good health. 



CHAPTER IX. 

WORKERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE 
TWELVE APOSTLES. 

A gr^at many people look upon the work of the 
twelve apostles as being different from that of the 
other disciples of the Lord Jesus, and think that the 
baptism of the Holy Ghost was given to them in a 
different manner from that which was intended for 
all believers, and that to them alone was given power 
by which they could work miracles and heal the sick. 
For this reason I chose, in the former chapter, to 
treat with the incidents connected with the twelve 
apostles. 

I now wish to review a few incidents in the lives 
of others, who were associated with the twelve apos- 
tles, given us in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. 

The Church was now rapidly growing and being 
greatly multiplied, for it soon left the process of 
addition and increased by multiplication, and it be- 
came necessary to have more officers. Seven men 
were chosen to look after the more private matters, 
that all of the common family might have their equal 
share and rights in the distribution and ministration 
of affairs. These men were to be of good report, 
filled with the Holy Ghost and wisdom. Of these 

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Divine Healing. 55 

seven men we know but little save their names, except 
Philip and Stephen. Stephen was a man full of faith 
and power, who, in his work among the people, per- 
formed great wonders and miracles. Not only did 
he do these things, but many of the synagogues dis- 
puted with him, and they were not able to resist the 
wisdom and spirit by which he spoke. He was soon 
taken hold of and brought before the Council, and 
false witnesses were brought in to testify against him ; 
but in the midst of these persecutors, as they looked 
upon him, his face appeared as that of an angel. 

He was given an opportunity to make a defense 
before the Council. Any one who will sit down and 
carefully read this defense, must be impressed with 
the ability and power of the man. While the Council 
had been greatly enraged, as Peter had for four times 
before this accused them of being the betrayers and 
murderers of Jesus Christ, yet he had not been able 
to present the matter with the force with which it is 
now for the fifth time hurled at them. Not only are 
they accused of being the betrayers and murderers 
of the Just One, but they were now accused of resist- 
ing the Holy Ghost. In hearing these things they 
were cut to the heart, and became a wild and boister- 
ous mob ; they ran upon him, thrust him out of the 
city, and stoned him to death. Thus he became the 
first martyr of the Christian era to go to the home 
above to tell the good tidings of the glories of the 
dispensation just ushered into the world below; and 
wonderful was the manifestations of God's power and 
grace witnessed at his death. 



56 Divine Healing. 

The persecution now became so great the dis- 
ciples, except the apostles, were scattered from Jeru- 
salem, and went everywhere preaching the Word. 
"Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and 
preached the gospel there. " Although not one of the 
apostles, great was his success ; "for the people with 
one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip 
spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 
For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came 
out of many that were possessed with them, and many 
taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.'* 

Philip soon left Samaria, being sent of the Spirit 
into the desert, there to meet a man in the road, to 
whom he preached Jesus, and led him to believe in 
Him ; when again he is caught away by the Spirit, 
and sent on his mission, where, we have all reason 
to believe, his labors were followed by continued 
demonstrations of power and blessings to the people. 

During the time Stephen was being stoned, the 
clothes of those throwing the stones were kept by 
a young man, a member of the Sanhedrin, known as 
Saul of Tarsus. He now becomes one of the fierce 
persecutors of the Christians, but is soon converted 
at Damascus, and, joining this despised sect, becomes 
the most noted defender of the gospel which he so 
bitterly opposed and despised. 

Although about five years since the scene of Pen- 
tecost, when the Spirit was given to the apostles, had 
elapsed before Saul was converted and began his 
work, yet we shall see that he has all the power that 
the apostles had, as we shall follow him for a little 
time in his work, which in zeal and earnestness ex- 



Divine Healing. 57 

ceeded them all. We see him able to rebuke Elymas, 
the sorcerer, telling him, "The hand of the Lord is 
upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing for a 
season." At Lystra he had power to heal the impo- 
tent man, who had been a cripple from his birth, but 
when Paul commanded him to stand upon his feet 
he leaped and walked. After he w 7 as stoned, and 
dragged out of Lystra as dead, while the disciples yet 
stood round about him, Paul arose and went back 
into the city. The jail at Philippi was unable to hold 
Paul and Silas. Their chains fell off, their feet were 
loosed from the stocks, and the prison doors swung 
open. The last night he spent at Troas, as the meet- 
ing continued all night, a lad who had gone to sleep 
fell from a window in the third story of a building, 
and was taken up dead. Paul restored his life. He 
was cared for in the great storm upon the sea, when 
all hope of rescue w r as gone from the crew. He was 
delivered from the bite of the serpent on the island 
of Malta. He healed the father of Publius, the chief 
man of the island, who lay sick of a fever and bloody 
flux. Others of the island came, or were brought, 
and he healed them. 

Having briefly reviewed the lives of the twelve 
apostles and these three servants of the gospel of our 
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Stephen, Philip, and 
Paul, I shall bring this argument to a close. 

We have seen the work of these disciples of Jesus, 
as they operated immediately after His death and 
suffering upon the cross, the effect of which might 
bring untold blessings to a fallen race, as through 
Him it might be brought back into perfect harmony 



58 Divine H^aung. 

with God, and in constant fellowship with Him by 
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 

A Brie^ Review. 

Under the Law and the Prophets: We have seen 
sins forgiven, lepers healed, bodily diseases cured, 
and the dead raised. 

In the Life of Jesus Christ : We found sins for- 
given, lepers cleansed, all kinds of bodily diseases and 
sicknesses healed, and the dead raised. 

In Apostolic Times : Both by the apostles and 
other disciples we observed multitudes forgiven of 
their sins ; all kinds of diseases healed ; the blind made 
to see, and those seeing made blind ; the dead raised 
to life, and the living struck dead. We have not been 
disappointed in finding a similarity of privileges and 
blessings offered to a fallen race in all the ages and 
dispensations of the past ; the foundation of all these 
privileges centering in the one source, and that 
source the effect of the atonement of Jesus Christ. 

I have endeavored to present, from the standpoint 
of Divine Revelation, the reason for the hope I have 
that bodily diseases may yet largely be relieved, as 
we put ourselves in the proper relationship with our 
blessed Lord and Master. Those who have been in- 
terested thus far in the discussion of the subject, will 
probably be glad to go with me in the further dis- 
cussion of the agencies and means and conditions 
which are necessary for the obtaining of this great 
blessing to humanity, which is so closely connected 
with the forgiveness of sins and the perfection of 
believers. 



CHAPTER X. 

SHOULD DIVINE HEALING CONTINUE TO 
THIS AGE? 

While we have been enabled in our research to 
see clearly the operations of the Divine power in the 
past decade, and continuing with no diminishing 
effect, as far as the inspired Record permits us to go, 
what are the grounds upon which we dare believe 
that this same Divine power may be operated for the 
blessing of fallen humanity in the age in which we 
live? The only hope we can have is the propitiatory 
sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross. 

This being the only source, and the sacrifices of 
the Jewish worship being performed typically of this 
one great sacrifice, in which the only true virtue was 
to be found, becoming effective in that ancient time 
on the other side of the cross, why should it not ex- 
tend its virtue as far on this side of the cross? If it 
extended back to the beginning of time, why should 
it not extend forward to the end of time? 

Again, the privileges and blessings promised upon 
certain conditions at the beginning of an age, or dis- 
pensation, were to continue to the end of that age. 
The Passover sacrifice became a perpetual ordinance 

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60 Divine Heaung. 

to the Jewish age, and if they would have their sins 
atoned for, the people must observe this ordinance. 
Likewise all the blessings offered by the observance 
of the sacrifices of the law became perpetual, and 
were to be a means of blessing to the end of that age. 

The reason of their failure was not upon the part 
of the rites and ceremonies, but upon the part of the 
people, who failed to rightly observe them. May it 
not be the same in the Christian dispensation? May 
not all the blessings conferred in apostolic times have 
been intended to be perpetuated to the end of the age 
of which they were the beginning? But as Israel 
failed to keep the commandments and ordinances 
which God had given them, thereby forfeiting their 
rights to the privileges and blessings which were 
promised to the obedient, may it not be so in relation 
to the present? May not the fault be with a rebel- 
lious and backslidden Church, that has failed to meet 
the requirements of obedience and faith which were 
necessary to perpetuate the blessings of Pentecostal 
times? 

The power to produce these signs and wonders, 
was with the Holy Ghost. "Ye shall receive power 
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." He 
was the promised Gift of the Father. It was He 
whom Jesus said He would send when He went away. 
It was He whom Peter declared was promised to 
you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off. 
It was He whom Joel had prophesied should be 
poured out, in the last days, upon all flesh. It was 
He who was given to the Gentiles ; for Peter declares 



Divine Healing. 6i 

that upon them was the Holy Ghost poured out, as 
upon us at the beginning. The Holy Ghost is un- 
changeable. Jesus Christ was said to be the same 
yesterday, to-day, and forever. The Holy Ghost is 
as unchangeable as Jesus Christ could be. So He is 
the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. To have 
Him to-day is the same as to have Him in apostolic 
times ; to have Him then was to have Him with all 
His attributes and power; and to have Him to-day 
can be no less. 

The Prophet Joel says that "in the last day, saith 
# God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh." 
Those were the last days when He was poured out 
upon the disciples at Pentecost; and we are in the 
last days now. Jesus says, "All power is given to 
Me, both in heaven and earth;" and then promises, 
"Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the 
world." To have Him is to be associated with all 
the power He possesses, and to have Him to the end 
of the world is to be associated with His power that 
long. 

Does the teaching of Jesus harmonize with the 
thought of the continuation of the signs and wonders 
performed at the beginning of the Christian era? 
When Jesus was endeavoring to impress upon the 
people the unity which He had with the Father, He 
said : "The things which I do, I do not of Myself, but 
the Father which dwelleth in Me, He doeth the 
work." "If you will not believe My testimony, that 
I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, believe Me 
for the work's sake which ye see Me do." He then 



62 Divine; H^aung. 

gave utterance to this language : "Verily, verily I say 
unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that 
I do shall he do also/' What are the works which 
Jesus did? At one time John, while in prison, sent 
two of his disciples to Jesus, asking Him to tell them 
plainly whether He was Messiah which was to come. 
While they were with Him, He cured many of their 
infirmities and plagues and evil spirits, and to the 
blind He gave sight. He then told these messengers, 
"Go and tell John the things ye have heard and seen : 
how the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are 
cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and t 
the gospel is preached to the poor." This is the an- 
swer of Jesus Himself, as to His work. And if he 
that believeth on Jesus is to do the works He did, 
they too will not only preach the gospel to the poor, 
but will heal the bodies of suffering humanity. 

The argument frequently used to illustrate this 
statement of Jesus is, that under the advancement 
of civilization we have established asylums for the 
blind, and special schools for the deaf and dumb, and 
surgical institutes and hospitals for the deformed 
of different kinds ; and by the invention of books with 
raised letters the blind can thereby read; the deaf 
and dumb, by means of signs, can understand and 
thereby communicate as if by hearing and talking; 
and any with lame feet and ankles deformed can have 
them removed and artificial limbs put in their place ; 
and by the blessings thus conferred upon the suffer- 
ing and helpless, we, as believers in Jesus, are doing 
the works which He did. While I would not speak 



Divine Healing. 63 

disparagingly of the great blessings these institutes 
are to thousands of suffering people, I can do no less 
in this argument than say, This is not what Jesus 
did ; for He gave sight to the blind, and hearing to 
the deaf, and soundness to the deformed, thereby 
making such institutions useless, for want of people 
to patronize them. 

The last commission Jesus gave to the disciples 
just before His ascension to the Father was, "Go ye 
into all the world and preach the gospel to every 
creature, and these signs shall follow them that be- 
lieve : In My name shall they cast out devils ; they 
shall speak with new tongues ; they shall take up ser- 
pents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not 
'hurt them ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they 
shall recover." The disciples, as they went forth 
preaching the gospel under this commission, did per- 
form these things, and these signs did follow them. 
Jesus did not say these signs should follow the apos- 
tles alone, but that they shall follow those "who be- 
lieve on Me" through their preaching. 

All evangelical Churches unite in acknowledging 
that the end to be reached by these organizations is 
to carry out this commission of Jesus, in preaching 
the gospel of life and salvation, through Him, to a 
lost and ruined world. They all unite in urging that 
this gospel must be preached in Jesus' name : "For 
there is no other name given under heaven or among 
men whereby we must be saved." He, being the 
only Source, becomes the head of His Church, and 
calls whomsoever He will to perform His service, 



64 Divine Heading. 

and gives them special gifts and qualifications for this 
work. It is written, "He gave some apostles, and 
some prophets, and some evangelists, and pastors 
and teachers ;" and in conferring these gifts He ex- 
pected them used, in effective preaching. 

Again, we read that "To one by the same Spirit 
is given the word of wisdom, to another knowledge, 
to another faith." Again, God has set in the Church, 
first, apostles ; secondly, prophets ; thirdly, teachers. 
All these are given that the gospel might be success- 
fully preached, not only for the conversion of sin- 
ners, but for the perfecting of believers. 

God has thus made special provision for preaching 
the gospel by these Divine gifts which He has con- 
ferred upon the Church ; and if the healing of the 
bodies of the sick and suffering is to accompany the 
gospel ministry, does He make any provision for this? 

Let us see further : "To another is given the gifts 
of healing by the same Spirit ; to another the work- 
ing of miracles ; to another prophecy ; to another the 
discerning of spirits ; to another the interpretation 
of tongues : but all these worketh that one and the 
self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as 
He will." Again, with the apostles, prophets, and 
teachers are given miracles and gifts of healing. 
"Are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers 
of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing?" 

All can unite upon the importance of the gifts 
which apply to preaching the gospel, and would be 
willing to acknowledge that any Church whose object 
is not to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to a sin- 



DlVIN£ H^AIvING. 65 

smitten race, is unworthy the name which it bears. 
But as one gift is as freely and amply given as 
another, how dare we ignore those which would bring 
relief and happiness to thousands of suffering bodies ; 
and expect to be accounted faithful servants of Him 
who has given these precious gifts and said, "Occupy 
till I come!" 

It will be observed that the language of Christ 
to which I alluded, where He speaks of those who 
believe in Him doing the works which He did, was 
not completed ; for He goes on to say, "And greater 
works than these shall ye do." Very true ; but until 
the Church is able to perform these little deeds of 
kindness which He so willingly did, to the relief of 
all the suffering ones who came in His pathway, we 
can little hope to do the greater things spoken of 
in the text. 



CHAPTER XI. 
THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT CONDITION. 

I have) endeavored to show, in the preceding 
chapter, that it was God's purpose that the blessings 
with which the people were favored in the beginning 
of the Christian era should continue to its close ; and 
upon His part the needed agencies were furnished 
by which these glorious blessings of Pentecostal times 
might be perpetuated to the children of men. If 
these conclusions are well founded, then where can 
the fault be that we see so little of the marvelous 
blessings which the people then enjoyed? Let us see 
if we can find a reason. 

I have before remarked that the statement that 
"it is the glory of God to conceal a thing" was appli- 
cable to nature and grace ; and these things which I 
am now trying to tell have been sought after for 
many years. It was in my boyhood days, upon my 
father's farm, with Testament in my pocket, to be 
used whenever opportunity afforded, often upon my 
knees between the plow-handles, and almost every- 
where else, that I earnestly prayed to God that He 
would lead me to comprehend the truth concerning 
His plan of salvation for a fallen race. 

I almost completely forsook the association of 
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Divine Hdaung. 67 

the youth of my age, and lived much in retirement. 
The Sabbath afternoons especially were mostly spent 
in groves, upon the green hillsides, with Bible in hand, 
and often upon my knees did I pray, "O Lord, open 
my eyes, that I may know the truth of Thy Word!" 
Not only did I thus study the general contents of the 
Bible, but this special feature or doctrine was very 
carefully and prayerfully studied for a long time be- 
fore I was enabled to come to satisfactory conclu- 
sions concerning it. 

The only desire I now have in presenting this sub- 
ject to the people is not that what I shall be able to 
say may be of much benefit, but that others may be 
stimulated to search out for themselves, under the 
enlightening of the Holy Spirit, the truth relative to 
this important subject, as the Bible portrays it ; for 
it is on nearly every page of the Gospel and the Acts 
of the Apostles. 

I have attended religious services of the Church 
all my life ; have sat under the preaching of the 
gospel, mostly of Friends Church, and can truthfully 
say I have never heard the subject preached upon in 
a way that I could harmonize it with the plain teach- 
ing of the Scriptures, as I had been forced to see it, 
in my earnest research to know the truth as it was 
taught therein. Fifteen years ago, when I had dared 
to speak a short time in meeting upon this subject, 
an elderly man speaking to me about it said, "I want 
to tell thee that thee said more in that short talk 
upon that subject than I had ever heard said in all 
my lifetime before." 



68 Divine: H^aunC 

Upon the other hand, the preaching has almost 
universally been against it. While all acknowledge 
the work of Jesus Christ and of the apostles as being 
miraculous, especially for the attestation of the Di- 
vinity of Jesus Christ and to prove the Divine author- 
ity of the gospel, yet it is generally taught that these 
supernatural things have accomplished their purpose 
and ceased to be ; and upon last Sabbath I heard from 
the sacred pulpit just such argument. And while in 
this advanced age, with superior advantages for re- 
ligious knowledge and Bible study, ignorance can 
hardly be excused, yet we are forced, in respect to 
the position the large majority of Christians take, to 
say they are honest through ignorance, and the 
preaching upon this subject, or rather against it, has 
had much to do with the attitude of the Church 
toward it to-day. If the Church ever becomes so 
skeptical as to cease to preach the forgiveness of sins 
through repentance toward God and faith in the aton- 
ing blood of Jesus Christ, and, instead of preaching 
it, preach against such an experience, how many gen- 
erations would pass before conversion and heartfelt 
religion would largely be an experience of the past; 
and a case of conversion would be as seldom heard of 
as a case of Divine healing is in this day. 

As I have before stated, God has largely concealed 
the means of grace, and they are only found out and 
understood and experienced by a careful and prayer- 
ful study of the Divine Record under the enlighten- 
ment of the Holy Spirit, who is their Author, with 
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Divine Healing. 69 

as it is revealed, "For Jesus has become the Author 
of eternal salvation to all who obey Him." 

One of the -principal reasons for the present con- 
dition has been the ignorance connected with the 
honest motives in preaching the gospel. But I think 
I can see another reason, which is an endeavor of 
self-justification upon a lower plane of Christian ex- 
perience than that of apostolic times. If we can by 
any means persuade ourselves, and convince the peo- 
ple about us, that these miraculous demonstrations 
were only for the age of the apostles, then we be- 
come entirely satisfied with an experience which does 
not look for nor expect any interposition of Divine 
power for the present attestation of the genuineness 
of the Divine experience of God's people, or of the 
gospel which they preach. 

As an outgrowth of this low plane of Christian 
experience, the Churches of to-day are becoming very 
formal and inactive. Little interest is being taken 
by many of those already members, and but little 
effect is being exerted upon those outside. Skepti- 
cism and unbelief are very prevalent against there 
being very much in the genuineness of the gospel of 
the inwrought power of Divine grace by which a sin- 
ful man is made a new creature in Christ Jesus : 
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of in- 
corruptible, which liveth and abideth forever ;" and 
in place of the former plan of repentance toward God, 
restoration to all men, and faith in the atoning blood 
of Jesus Christ, as a foundation for this experience, 
the signing of a card or uniting with a Church, and 



70 Divine Healing. 

performing her ordinances, is the more commonly 
accepted plan of to-day. 

The Church is very skeptical, and 'knows but little 
of the more glorious work of the baptism of the Holy 
Ghost, by which the converted man is completely 
cleansed from all sin and the deformity of the fall, 
and brought into such relationship with God that he 
knows His voice and can do His will, and the Holy 
Ghost is given the entire kingship of the heart, there 
to live and reign, and cause this life to be lived after 
the pattern of Him who was not of this world, and, 
though living in it, was free from sin, and continually 
overcame the wicked one. While there are many 
who claim to believe in and profess this experience, 
they bear no fruit of Pentecostal times, and their 
lives plainly betray the falsity of such an experience 
to the world. 

In the foreign missionary field, as well as in some 
forms of home work, we have found that it is almost 
useless to endeavor to do much for the souls of men, 
without bringing them physical relief. It has become 
almost a necessity for missionaries to be medical 
practitioners, that the diseases of the body can be 
relieved, thereby acknowledging the necessity of 
doing the work which Jesus and the apostles did, in 
order that the gospel might be effective. 

Jesus and the apostles relieved suffering and 
healed the sick by virtue of the same sacrifice by 
which they offered them salvation from sin. But we 
are to-day under a Divine commission to carry the 
gospel of salvation to men's souls, therewith asso- 



Divine Healing. 71 

dating a worldly profession for the relief of the body ; 
and it has not proven very satisfactory or effective; 
for the gospel which we preach abounds with cases 
of those suffering with bodily diseases and deform- 
ities being relieved by virtue of the atonement of 
Jesus Christ, in the absence of medical means, or by 
the same means that we are offering them salvation 
from sin ; and it may possibly be we have violated 
tlje command of Jesus when He says, "Ye shallnot 
put new wine into old bottles." 

I am glad that history does not leave us without 
witnesses, who could bear testimony to the blessed 
care of a loving Heavenly Father to His children, 
as they have trusted themselves in His hands, and 
proven Him as to the virtue of the atonement of 
His Son. 

Any who will believe testimony can not fail to be 
convinced of the power to heal, on reading the faith- 
works of the late Dr. Cullis, of Boston; or the life 
work of George Miiller, of Bristol, England, who 
cared for thousands of orphan children, and testified 
that for more than sixty-three years he had been kept 
free from bodily pain ; or the "Fifty Years' Walk with 
God" of Asa Mahan ; or the life of the late C. H. 
Spurgeon, of London, of whom it is said, "He healed 
more people than any man of his day," though he 
never wrote a medical prescription. To these testi- 
monies of the faithful children of God, to which many 
more might be added, who have run their race and 
finished their course, and have been taken home to 
the better country, we could add a multitude of living 



72 DlVINK HEALING. 

witnesses to the power of Jesus Christ to forgive sins, 
cleanse from all unrighteousness by the power of the 
Holy Ghost, by which these mortal bodies have been 
quickened from the power of disease and made whole. 
These testimonies must awaken the Church to a 
higher conception of the work God would have her 
do, or she will not much longer retain her present 
state of justification before the world. 



CHAPTER XII. 

AGENCIES ASSOCIATED WITH DIVINE 
HEALING. 

What are the agencies by which this blessing may 
be obtained? 

That upon which our hope can alone be based, 
not only for the blessing of Divine bodily healing, but 
of all the agencies associated therewith, is the atone- 
ment of Jesus Christ upon the cross ; for it is written 
that "He bore our sins in His own body upon the 
tree ;" and again it is written, "He condemned sin in 
the flesh;" and Jesus Himself declared, "He bore 
our sicknesses. " 

But associated with this one source is human 
instrumentality. Everywhere Jesus sent His disciples 
He commissioned them to heal the sick, and in apos- 
tolic times it was the disciples of Jesus that were the 
agents of conferring this blessing upon suffering ones. 
As they were commissioned to go forth and preach 
the gospel of life and salvation, they were alike com- 
missioned to relieve the sick and bodily sufferers. 
The two went together. Associated with human 
agency is the gift of the Holy Ghost. While the dis- 
ciples were empowered to do these things by the 
direct commission of Jesus while He lived and walked 

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among them without the gift of the Holy Ghost, for 
He was not yet given, they were distinctly given to 
understand that they were not to enter upon the work 
of fulfilling the last commission of preaching the gos- 
pel to the world until they had tarried at Jerusalem 
till He should come ; for Jesus had told them they 
should receive power after the Holy Ghost had come 
upon them, and not before, and it was under His 
agency that the cures were performed by the apostles. 

It would also appear that by this same agency 
Jesus Himself performed these things, for it is writ- 
ten, "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy 
Ghost and power, and He went about healing all that 
were oppressed of the devil." If it was necessary for 
Jesus to be thus anointed, how much more necessary 
for all who claim to be His disciples, doing service 
in His name, to be ! The disciples understood that 
these outward demonstrations were f o be performed ; 
for after the persecution began they prayed for 
strength to be bold in preaching the gospel, and that 
signs and wonders might accompany it in the name 
of the Holy Child Jesus. 

Not only is this Spirit-filled and Holy-Ghost- 
anointed human agency to be used, but there are 
also given special gifts for healing diseases and work- 
ing miracles. It would appear that these gifts were 
conferred upon the elders of the Church, for we are 
exhorted by James, when sick, to send for the elders 
of the Church for relief from our disease. 

In order for any gift to be of service to the 
Church, in carrying on her work and performing her 



Divine Healing. 75 

service, it must be used, and must be used by the one 
to whom it is given : "for the gifts and callings of God 
are without repentance/' The main object of the 
Church should be the encouragement of each mem- 
ber to cultivate and bring into use, in every possible 
way, ^all the gifts which God has given him, for the 
full accomplishment of all the work He has delegated 
her to do. These gifts are given by God alone. The 
Church can not confer them ; neither can she choose 
the individual to whom they are to be given ; but all 
must be left alone to the choosing of God ; and if 
the Church would accomplish her full mission in the 
world she must be willing to give over her entire 
government and control to the Holy Ghost, of whom 
it is said, "He chose the weak things of the world 
to confound the mighty." 

As the only way that the gift of the ministry can 
be used is by preaching, the gift of a pastor by doing 
pastoral work, the gift of an evangelist by doing 
evangelistic work, so I know of no way by which the 
gift of healing can be used except by healing the sick, 
and the gift of miracles except by doing miracles. 

Another agency spoken of is anointing with oil. 
This has been taken by many to mean medical appli- 
ances. To my mind there is very little argument to 
be produced to this effect. If the Apostle James, when 
he speaks of anointing with oil those who are sick, 
would have it convey to us the use of medicines, he 
would have advised us to send for a physician in place 
of the elders of the Church, for he would certainly 
know better how to prescribe medicines. And, fur- 



76 Divine Healing. 

ther, he would have said that the taking of medicine 
would cure the sick, and not that the prayer of faith 
should heal the sick, and that their sins should be for- 
given. I have never yet known of medical means 
being an agency for the forgiveness of sins ; but here 
the agency of healing also becomes the means of the 
forgiveness of sins. 

While the oil might or might not contain medical 
properties, the anointing with oil was only an act 
from which a special result was to come, and the act 
became a definite step of faith upon the part of the 
disciples, which should be rewarded by the cure being 
performed. 

The same thing is meant where the laying on of 
hands is spoken of: "They shall lay hands upon the 
sick, and they shall recover ;" but the virtue for the 
recovery is in the atonement of Jesus Christ. This 
leads us to the consideration of the agency of faith, 
which is always associated with Divine healing, and 
from its very intimacy with it the work is often 
termed faith-healing. Faith is only one of the agen- 
cies of its accomplishment, and it may either be exer- 
cised by the individual receiving the blessing, or by 
others exercising it on their behalf. Jesus often re- 
marked, "Thy faith hath saved thee ; go in peace ;" 
"Be it unto thee according to thy faith." For the 
blessing of justification or sanctification it is hardly 
possible that faith could be exercised successfully for 
another without producing an act of faith upon the 
individual himself; but for healing it may or may not 
produce individual faith. 



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Faith may be exercised individually without the 
assistance of another's faith. Faith may be exercised 
by others, which shall be the result of a correspond- 
ing individual faith. Faith may be exercised success- 
fully for healing, without this individual act of faith. 
Blinti Bartimeus exercised individual faith to receive 
sight, against the unbelief of those about him. The 
leper, spoken of in the eighth chapter of Matthew, 
believed for himself; but the Centurion believed for 
the healing of his servant ; the nobleman believed for 
his son ; Jairus believed for his daughter ; the Syro- 
phenician woman believed for the healing of her 
daughter, when the chances were much against her; 
and the man who brought his son to the disciples 
when Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration be- 
lieved for the healing of his son against all the unbe- 
lief of the disciples who had failed to cure him. 

Of the man who was brought to Jesus on a bed 
by the four men the record says, "When Jesus saw 
their faith [referring to the four men] He said to 
the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up thy bed and 
walk." But here certainly the faith of these four 
men had inspired faith in the sick man himself; for 
it was an act of faith to rise up and walk, and in this 
act of faith he was healed. His faith has been pro- 
duced by the faith of the four men, and had it not 
been for their faith he would have had none. 

In the case of Peter and John healing the lame 
man, they, having faith for his healing, said to him, 
"Arise and walk," and their faith produced a respond- 
ing faith in the lame man; and as a further act of 



78 Divine HkaunC. 

their faith, they lifted up the helpless man on his feet, 
and, his faith acting with theirs, became sufficient, 
and was rewarded by the strength coming into his 
feet and ankles, and he leaped and walked. 

Such would be the case in obeying the admonition 
of the Apostle James, where he says, "The prayer of 
faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him 
up." The sick one has faith to send for the elders. 
They have faith to come. They pray in faith, and 
their faith increases the faith of the sick one, and 
faith becoming perfect, it becomes the prayer of faith, 
and is effectual, "For to him that believeth, all things 
is possible." 

Very closely connected with faith is prayer. 
"Hitherto ye have asked nothing. Ask and receive 
that your joy may be full." While there are several 
cases of blessings being conferred, recorded in Scrip- 
ture, where there is no definite asking, it is the ex- 
ception, and not the rule. While all the gifts are to 
be used in the full accomplishment of the work of 
the Church, it will be by much earnest prayer. It is 
the prayer of faith that not only heals the sick, but 
brings sinners to repentance and the rich blessings 
of God upon the Church. 

Jesus rebuked the disciples at one time for not 
being able to cast out a demoniac spirit. And in 
answer to their question, "Why could not we cast 
him out?" Jesus replied, "This kind goeth out only 
by prayer and fasting." "It is the effectual fervent 
prayer of a righteous man that availeth much." 

When we come, as the blind man did, with a cry, 



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"Thou Son of David, have mercy on me!" and when 
he was rebuked, the more he cried, "O Lord, Thou 
Son of David, have mercy on me !" or with a death- 
grip like Jacob of old, "I will not let Thee go unless 
Thou t^less me ;" or with Elijah on the mountain-top, 
with our faces in the dust, crying unto God, and 
looking for and expecting, and holding on to Go*d 
until we see the answer coming ; or with John Knox, 
when he cried unto God upon calloused knees, "Give 
me Scotland, or I die," — I believe, under all the Di- 
vine agencies together, with a complete dedication of 
all the powers of heart and mind and body to God, 
the Church may arise and shine under the full glow 
of apostolic times, when great fear and great grace 
would be upon all the people. 



CHAPTER XIII. 
WHO MAY EXPECT DIVINE HEALING. 

That this blessing may be obtained by any one, 
the ground of the belief must be in the atonement of 
Jesus Christ. In making this atonement, "He tasted 
death for every man." He bore the sin penalty for 
every one in His own body on the tree. So the realm 
in which this blessing may be extended is as broad as 
the effect of the atonement. In this sense no one can 
be excluded from benefit along this line from the 
power of grace Divine. "For there is no respect of 
persons with God." I am not, however, prepared to 
take the ground that no one need remain sick, or that 
God may not permit death by sickness. 

I look upon this life as a journey which is to be 
taken ; and this journey is from the cradle to the 
grave. I look upon it as a race to be run, and a goal 
to be reached; as a battle to be fought, and a victory 
to be won ; and when this goal is reached, and this 
victory won, God will receive us to Himself. 

I have never been able to see how any one who is 
willing to submit himself wholly into the hands of a 
loving Heavenly Father can be better able to run 
this race, or fight successfully the 'battles of this life 
in the service of God, full of disease and pain and 

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deformity, being a burden to himself and to those 
around him, whose loving hearts and kind hands are 
doing all in their power to make life pleasant for him, 
than if he were free from deformity and in good 
health. We read that God chastises His children, 
and>that afflictions are used often as a means of chas- 
tisement. Very true ; but the chastisement is for a 
purpose, and when the purpose is accomplished, the 
chastisement ceases. 

God purges His children that they may bring 
forth more fruit ; but when the object is reached, the 
purging ceases. "Our light affliction, which is but for 
a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and 
eternal weight of glory." True enough; but the af- 
fliction is to be for a moment, and not a lifetime. The 
blessings of the future life are not to be meted out to 
us as a compensation for the amount of suffering 
which we have endured, or the pathway to heaven 
would be through hell. 

When asked, "Who did sin, this man or his par- 
ents, that he should be born blind?" Jesus answered, 
"Neither have sinned, but that the name of God might 
be glorified." Wherein was God glorified? In the 
man remaining in blindness, or in having his sight 
restored? Certainly it was in this, that being blind 
afforded an opportunity for Jesus to open his eyes. 
So it may be with deformity and disease. God may 
not be as much glorified in our remaining in this 
condition as he would be should we come to Jesus 
and be healed by the virtue of the sacrifice He made 
for us. 

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82 Divine) H^aung. 

The devoted servants of God in the past have 
been men mostly of health, able to combat with the 
enemies of this world in the strength of bodily vigor, 
able for endurance and fatigue, which they were 
called upon to endure in performing the service of 
their Master. 

"Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, 
and was not for God took him*" Moses ran his race, 
and finished the work God wished him to do, and 
God took him upon the mountain-top, and angels 
buried him. Elijah accomplished his service for the 
Master, and chariots of fire came for him. Of the 
twelve apostles, eleven of them died a martyr's death, 
and one died of old age. Many of the reformers met 
death at the hand of their persecutors. 

Some will claim that, as God has created the med- 
ical properties, and placed them in this world, that 
He will do nothing for man which he can do for him- 
self, and while they admit a possibility of the virtue 
of Divine grace, they only admit of its application to 
the diseases known to be incurable by medical means. 

I think this argument is not well founded. It is 
stated of Jesus many times, that He healed all that 
were sick, and the disciples were given power over 
all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease, and 
that certainly embraced the curable as well as the in- 
curable. I am unable to see how Jesus could "take 
our infirmities and bear our sicknesses" in the atone- 
ment which He made, when He met the penalty of 
disease and death, and the virtue of this sacrifice 
reach one disease more than another. The unques- 



Divine Healing. 83 

tionable fact that all manner of disease and sickness 
has been healed by Jesus and the apostles proves our 
point, that they were all embraced in the effect of 
this sacrifice. 

The medical properties are part of this world, and 
belong to it, and are accessible to all its inhabitants 
as far as their knowledge and ability will enable them 
to use them to their benefit ; but the virtue of Divine 
grace belongs to the children of God, or to all who 
will renounce sin and the wicked one, and trust and 
obey Jesus. Through grace there is revealed a higher 
atmosphere in which the children of God may live 
and act in perfect harmony and obedience to the 
Divine will in the kingdom which is not of this world, 
protected by angelic hosts about them, and the pres- 
ence and power of the Holy Ghost within them. 
They can live in this world in a sphere of blessings, 
of which this world knows nothing. It can not con- 
fer them, neither can it take them away, blessed be 
the name of the Lord! 

What else can be the meaning of Jesus, when He 
says to the disciples, "Behold, I give unto you power 
to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all 
the power of the enemy, and nothing shall be able 
to hurt you?" And again, "They shall take up ser- 
pents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not 
hurt them." Or what can the prophet mean when he 
says, "When thou passest through the waters, they 
shall not overflow thee ; or through the fire, it shall 
not kindle upon thee?" 

The sickly and diseased physical condition of the 



84 Divine H^aung. 

Church to-day is no credit to the great Physician, 
whom we profess to worship, and under whose care 
we have enlisted to fight the battles of this life, when 
we remember that in His lifetime upon the earth He 
never turned any suffering one away, but "as many 
as touched Him were made perfectly whole." Yet 
many are so sickly they are taking medicine from the 
beginning of the year to its close, with no permanent 
improvement. 

Also many ministers of the gospel, who profess 
God has called them to preach the gospel of life and 
salvation, are physically unable to perform this serv- 
ice to which God has called them, being scarcely able 
to preach one or two sermons of thirty minutes' 
length a week, and must take a vacation of at least 
one month for recuperation in the summer time. O, 
how much we need the Holy Ghost to quicken these 
mortal bodies, that they may have strength to do 
vigorous work for God ! 

Think of the Apostle Paul undergoing all the 
hardships of his time, preaching till midnight, then 
talking till morning, being fourteen days in the storm 
without food, and he had a thorn in the flesh, which 
many claim was a bodily disease. But no one knows 
1 it was a bodily disease ; and if it was, grace so carried 
him over it that it neither hindered him in his work 
nor caused his death. 



CHAPTER XIV. 
THE MANNER OF DIVINE HEALING. 

The presence and power of God may be mani- 
fested to the sick and dying in three different ways, 
by which they may recover. Divine grace may be 
afforded sufficiently to sustain the sick one in the 
very threshold of death, where everything but grace 
would fail to keep alive, until the force of the disease 
has spent itself, and the sick may recover. This could 
not properly be termed Divine healing. Still it is a 
Divine cause by which life is sustained and health 
restored ; and in the absence of the interposition of 
this means the sick would have died. 

This thought is very clearly illustrated in a case 
given by i\sa Mahan, in his book, "Out of Darkness 
into Light," which occurred in Detroit, Michigan, and 
in substance is as follows : In the city lived a lady 
noted for her earnest Christian life and power in 
prayer. Her husband was smitten with cholera. His 
case baffled the skill of all the physicians, and he de- 
scended into the lowest state of collapse, a state from 
which no individual was ever before known to re- 
cover. While the physicians and others were stand- 
ing round the bed, expecting each breath would be 
the last, his wife, looking upon the unconscious face 

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of her husband, said very calmly, "He will not die 
now/' "My madam," said one of the physicians, "he 
is dying, and must be dead in a very few moments." 
"If that man dies," said his wife, "I am not a Chris- 
tian. If I ever had faith at all, I have prayed in faith 
for his recovery, and if my prayer fails here, I have 
no hold upon God." This man did recover, and no 
physician, nor any other person, could give any ac- 
count of the fact but this, "that in this case, at least, 
the prayer of faith did save the sick, and the Lord did 
raise him up." 

Again, the interposition of Divine grace may stop 
the ravages of disease, and leave the person to re- 
cover by means of natural resources, which con- 
dition is illustrated by the statement, "At that hour 
the fever left him ;" or, "From that time he began 
to amend." 

In the third case there is the transmission of the 
virtue of the Divine Son of God, by which the disease 
is stopped, the deformity removed, and, by the imme- 
diate effect thereof, the sick one is restored to a 
normal condition of life and health. 

In either of these three ways the power of Divine 
grace may be applied in case of sickness and disease, 
and the conditions upon which it is applied will be 
largely according to the conditions and faith of those 
concerned. 

It must here be remarked that, upon the part of 
any who may be seeking or expecting Divine healing, 
or to be kept in health by Divine power, there must 
be a complete surrender to the Divine control; and 



Divine Healing. 87 

every power of body, mind, and soul must be brought 
into subjection, harmony, and obedience to the Di- 
vine Will. Xo recklessness or frivolity can even be 
thought of in such a life as this. All manner of dress 
and^diet, conversation and business, must be engaged 
in under the conscious sense of the presence of the 
Holy and Just One ; who has said in His Word that 
"we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in 
this present world/' All things must be engaged in 
for the accomplishment of the one purpose, the glory 
of His name, and the advancement of His kingdom 
and power in the earth. 

Probably there is no one cause of so much sick- 
ness and suffering as injudicious eating. A great 
many people are constantly eating those things which 
they know do not agree with them, just because they 
taste good, while there is plenty to eat by which life 
and health can be sustained without these hurtful 
things. 

It is well for us to remember God gave His chosen 
people of old a bill of fare of which they might eat ; 
and forbade them eating many things ; and largely the 
Jew r ish people adhere to this bill of fare at the present 
time ; and it is generally conceded that they are more 
free from many forms of chronic disease than is the 
Gentile race, who disregard these rules of eating alto- 
gether. And because God would teach Peter by a 
vision, that he was not to call that which God had 
cleansed common or unclean, and that a Gentile who 
had received forgiveness of sins, and been filled with 
the Holy Ghost, was as good as a Jew under the same 



88 Divine Hsaijng. 

circumstances, and in teaching him this let down as 
it were a great sheet held at the four corners, in which 
were all kinds of animals, and said to him as he saw 
them, "Arise, Peter, kill and eat," we would make it 
to convey the idea that the entire catalogue of God's 
requirements as to the things we should eat was dis- 
annulled. 

God has always thought good toward His chil- 
dren, and that which He has required has been for 
the good of those obeying His commands and teach- 
ing, rather than to show His own authority. I have 
no bill of fare to prescribe, but those who would ex- 
pect help from Divine grace to keep them in health 
must not continue a course of diet which does not 
agree with them, and expect grace to counteract its 
evil effect. We must eat to live, not merely live to 
eat : and we must dress for the comfort and health of 
these bodies rather than to meet the demands of 
fashion, to please the eyes of this vain world. 

Under the advantages of all the natural resources 
about us, and the promised help of the grace of our 
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I am unable to see 
how God may expect any less of His children than 
that their lives here in this world should be in general 
health sufficient to perform the common duties of 
life, while His grace may many times be wonderfully 
revealed to help us in trial and temptation. Being 
Divinely healed once, gives us no special lease of life 
or guarantee against the return of sickness and dis- 
ease which are common to man. It may, however, 
stimulate our faith and confidence in God, that will 
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Divine Healing. 89 

less difficult to exercise faith for such a blessing 
again. 

The time will come when neither healing nor sus- 
taining grace will be given ; "For it is appointed unto 
maruonce to die/ 5 But with God's dear children, who 
have known His wondrous love and care, it may be 
said as of old, "What aileth thee, O thou Jordan, that 
thou wast driven back ? ? ' It may be the passage will 
be in the overflowing season, but it will matter not 
as to that. Though the surges of disease may be 
terrific, yet in the crossing hour the darkness will be 
dispelled, and the turbid waters dried up, and in 
brightness we shall gloriously pass over dry-shod. 
From the conflict of the last battle we shall come off 
more than conquerors through Him who has loved 
us and washed us in His own blood from all sin ; who 
has purified our hearts by the cleansing power of the 
Holy Ghost ; comforted us by the constant indwelling 
of His presence ; made His grace abound toward us, 
so we have had the all-sufficiency of it in all the trials 
and temptations of life unto the dying hour. Our 
souls shall be received into the habitation of the blest, 
with all the faithful who have gone on before, and 
these bodies, which have been the constant objects 
of His love and care, shall molder away, and sleep 
in the dust of the earth until the morning of that 
glorious day when the Son shall come for His bride. 
Then shall be revealed the last act and crowning 
event of His grace, when the dead shall rise tri- 
umphant from the grave, and soul and body shall be 
united, and we shall realize to the full the power of 
redeeming grace in the full attainment of eternal life. 



CHAPTER XV. 

IS DIVINE HEALING NEEDED IN THIS 
DAY? 

The true Church of Jesus Christ is a Divine insti- 
tution. To prove herself Divine to the world, she 
must bear the marks of the Divine Power upon her. 
Simply claiming a thing does not prove it to be so. 

Divine healing has been one of the evidences of 
God's presence and power in the midst of His people 
in all the ages of Bible history, and was said by Jesus 
to be one of the signs which should follow those who 
believe in Him. Power can only be proven to exist 
by the effect it produces. The apostle tells us that 
in the last days perilous times will come, men will be 
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God ; they will 
turn from the truth unto fables ; they will maintain 
a form of godliness, but deny the power. 

If it was necessary for Jesus to prove His Divinity 
by the mighty deeds which He performed, and the 
apostles and disciples of Jesus their association with 
God by the things which they did, that no man could 
do of himself, is it any the less necessary for the dis- 
ciples of Jesus in this day, if the Church is to accom- 
plish the work which God has committed into her 
hands ? 

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The true work of the Church, says one, is to 
preach the gospel of life and salvation to a lost world. 
This is very true. But she is to preach this gospel 
by the authority of Jesus Christ, backed up by the 
powej? of the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, in 
a way that men must be convinced that it is not the 
message or work of man, but that God of a truth is 
in the midst of His people. This message of life and 
salvation is for the body as well as the soul. 

Such a thing is not taught in the Scriptures of 
truth, that any man's soul can be saved by the power 
and influence of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the 
cross, of whom it is said, "He brought life and im- 
mortality to light" — and his body be lost. Jesus 
Christ did not come into this world to form an alli- 
ance with the devil, to that extent that He would be 
satisfied by saving the soul and let the devil have the 
body. What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the 
whole world, and lose his life? (R. V.) "Fear Him, 
who hath power to destroy both soul and body in 
hell/' Noah was saved, both soul and body, from the 
destruction of the flood. The children of Israel, in 
their exit from Egypt, declared "not a hoof shall be 
left behind;" and even Joseph's bones were carried 
out of the enemy's country into the Land of Promise, 
and finally the entire man will be saved, or the entire 
man will be lost. The soul of the drunkard can only 
be saved by saving his body from drunkenness. No 
person's soul can be saved, and kept in the possession 
of eternal life, except as his body is saved and kept 
from sin. "His name shall be called Jesus, for He 
shall save His people from their sins." 



92 Divine Healing. 

In no way has the Church lost so much as she has 
in divorcing the salvation of the soul from that of 
the body. "Know ye not that your bodies are the 
temples of the Holy Ghost? and he that defileth the 
temple, him will God destroy.'' 

I once heard the expression, coming from a pro- 
fessed Christian, that you might hate the bodies of 
men if you loved their souls. The life of the body is 
a very precious thing, and it is largely put in our 
control, and if we fail to preserve it, we lose it. It is 
not a thing we can lay down and take up at pleasure. 

Salvation is the principle of life, transmitted to the 
soul by the effect of the atonement of Jesus Christ, 
who paid the death penalty Himself for all men, and, 
by virtue of the effect of this atonement, all men may 
be brought into possession of this soul life by comply- 
ing with the terms upon which it is offered. These 
are the terms by which the new birth is brought 
about, by which we have this new life ; and while we 
remain in this world, or this probationary state, we 
are responsible for this life, and upon our care of it 
depends whether it will continue everlastingly or not ; 
for Jesus has become the Author of eternal salvation 
only to those who obey Him. 

As we have but one natural life, and no promise 
of another in this world, so we have one soul life; 
and should we forfeit this life, have we any promise 
of another? Did the atonement of Jesus Christ pro- 
cure life but once for any man? If it did not, and 
this life having been received and forfeited, there can 



Divine Heading. 93 

be no other without a new sacrifice by which a new 
atonement can be made, and we have no promise of 
such being done. "If ye sin willfully after ye have 
received a knowledge of the truth, there remaineth 
no more sacrifice for sin." 

A great deal has gone under the name of salva- 
tion that has borne but little fruit of it. I once knew 
of a great revival in which many were said to be con- 
verted and come into possession of this glorious life, 
of which it was said in a short time, "All had back- 
slidden but two ; one of these had been drunk, and 
the other had been in a fight." I once knew of a 
boy who had the opportunity of good religious in- 
struction, who told that "he got religion at meeting, 
and lost it before he got home." 

There has been so much repetition of circum- 
stances like the above, of the very ld\v estimate of 
that which pertains to the life of the soul, and so little 
evidence of the accompanying Divine sovereignty of 
God, that religion has come to be looked upon by a 
great many as being a light and trivial thing, merely 
as a cloak to be put on and off at pleasure. The 
organizations, commonly known as Churches, are 
looked upon as being no better than many other fra- 
ternal organizations of man's own getting up for the 
mutual benefit and association of its members. The 
failure of the Church to be what she was intended to 
be in providing a common brotherhood, under the 
Fatherhood of God, by which help and sympathy 
might be extended to one another, and specially to 



94 Divine Healing. 

the unfortunate in this life, has doubtless been one 
cause of the rapid growth of these other organiza- 
tions and fraternal societies. 

To illustrate, permit me to give the incident of 
the beggar boy and the preacher. The story goes 
that "once a boy stopped at the parsonage to ask 
for his breakfast. " The preacher, remembering it 
was his duty to give religious instruction, asked the 
boy if he knew the Lord's Prayer. He answered, 
"No." "Would you like to learn it?" asked the 
preacher. "Yes," said the boy, "I would." "Well," 
said the preacher, "go and eat your breakfast and 
then come into my room and I will teach it to you." 
When his breakfast was eaten, the boy came in. The 
preacher said, "Now I will say it, and you may repeat 
it after me ;" and began, "Our Father who art in 
heaven." The" boy appeared very much surprised, 
and could not repeat it. The parson repeated it 
again, "Our Father who art in heaven." He then 
asked the boy why he did not say it. The boy, in- 
stead of repeating it, asked, "Is He your Father?" 
"Yes," said the preacher, "He is my Father." "Is 
He my Father too?" asked the boy. The preacher 
replied, "Yes, He is your Father." "Then," said the 
boy, "if He is my Father and your Father, we are 
brothers, are n't we?" "Yes," said the preacher, "we 
are brothers." "What!" said the boy, "we brothers? 
Then, why did you give me that cold, dry piece of 
bread for my breakfast if we are brothers?" A 
brotherhood that has plenty of good, warm, rich food 
to eat on one hand, and cold, dry bread upon the 



Divine Hsaung. 95 

other, or riches and luxury, as against poverty, hun- 
ger, and nakedness, is not a desirable condition of 
brotherhood even to a beggar boy on the streets. 
No wonder he was amazed to find a Father in heaven 
and a brother on the earth, and his condition of pov- 
erty remaining the same ! 

The young men, failing to find the help and asso- 
ciation from the Church which would draw them into 
her fold, are soon persuaded to join some one of the 
mutual societies, the rules and regulations of which 
are that its members shall be helpful to one another. 

The early Apostolic Church was very aggressive 
on the line of helping one another. A common fund 
was raised, and seven men full of the Holy Ghost 
were appointed to see that all had their equal rights. 
Some branches of the Church bear a strong testi- 
mony against secret societies, and well they might 
if they afforded the needed help and assistance to 
their members. But while they do not, and wages 
can be received in case of disability to work, and 
nurses furnished in sickness, many will still continue 
their membership in these. These societies are also 
against the Church, which claims so much for her 
Divine organization and authority, while she is doing 
so little to convince the world of the rightfulness to 
her claim. 

If the Church would make good her claim of Di- 
vine authority and power by the things she could 
accomplish beyond the power of man to do, then her 
influence would be largely felt, and those coming in 
touch and association with her would be convinced 



96 Divine) H^ai/eng. 

that they were in the presence of the Omnipotent 
One, and great fear would necessarily come upon 
them. 

It is a very sad thing to see the levity and light- 
ness often exhibited in the house of God, by those 
who are professing to be engaged in worshiping the 
Most High. And often those professing to be called 
and sent forth of God to administer the gospel of 
life and salvation to a sin-sick and dying people, the 
rejection or acceptation of which will decide their 
eternal destiny either for heaven or hell, do it in a 
very amusing and entertaining way, by which the 
people are kept from the real spirit of solemn wor- 
ship, and the great questions of the responsibility of 
life and certainty of death are not touched upon at 
all, and the minds of the people are carried away with 
the amusement of the present in a way very different 
indeed from the example of Jesus and the apostles 
and the reformers, under whose preaching sinners 
were made to tremble and cry out, "What shall we 
do to be saved ?" 

The Church, if she is to convince the world that 
she is the Divinely authorized and empowered organ- 
ization of the Lord Jesus Christ, certainly needs Di- 
vine healing to-day: 

i. Because it is part of the work of the Church to 
heal the sick, and she can not perform her full duty 
without it. 

2. That the Church may prove the existence of 
God by the manifestation of His power. 

3. That the Church may prove herself the servant 



Divine Healing. 97 

of God by being the instrumentality in performing 
that which no man could do, except God be with him. 

4. By bringing blessing to the needy and relief 
to the suffering. 

5. Because the servants of the enemy of God have 
often been able to do superhuman things. And if 
the servants of God are unable to do so, the power 
of the enemy must exceed that of God. 

6. The Church needs the attestation of the Divine 
power of God with her to-day, as much as she ever 
did. As Jesus has told the world what signs are to 
follow those who believe in Him, unless there is some 
exhibition of these signs the world has a right to 
doubt the genuineness of the profession without the 
fruit. "For by their fruits ye shall know them, ,, is 
still the test of all profession. 



CHAPTER XVI. 
CLOSING ARGUMENT. 

Any one who will carefully read and study God's 
revealed will to man, as given in the Bible, must be 
convinced of the wonderful love He had for a lost 
and ruined race of beings, by the marvelous plan of 
redemption He has provided at such an incompre- 
hensible cost. 

"For God so loved the world that He gave His 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 
should not perish, but have everlasting life ;" and the 
invitation is graciously and lovingly given unto all 
to come and enjoy the benefits of this salvation: 
"Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all ye ends of the 
earth." "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." "The Spirit 
and the Bride say, Come ; and let him that heareth 
say Come ; and let him that is athirst come ; and who- 
soever will let him take of the waters of life freely." 
By these, and many other passages which might be 
quoted, all are invited to come and partake of the 
untold blessings of this salvation, without money and 
without price. These promises are given to man in 
his entirety, or his threefold nature of body, mind, 



Divine: Healing. 99 

and soul, but are commonly, in these days, inter- 
preted to apply to the soul alone. 

What is the exhortation left us regarding the 
condition^) f these bodies ? "Is any sick among you, 
let him call for the elders of the Church; and let 
them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the 
name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save 
the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he 
have committed sins they shall be forgiven him/' 
This is the exhortation of the Divine Word, and is 
given in a universal way, "Is any sick among you?" 
It is not only an exhortation, but comes almost as 
a command. It is not he may, but "let him call for 
the elders." And the command is not only to the 
sick, but to the elders as well. "Let them pray over 
him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord." 

Not only are they to pray over and for him, they 
are to perform an act, not in their own name, or the 
office they fill, or in the name of the Church to which 
they belong, but in the name of the Lord; and the 
effect of this act, and their prayer, will determine 
whether the prayer is the prayer of faith, and whether 
the act is truly in the name of the Lord. For the 
promise is very positive, "The prayer of faith shall 
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." By 
this exhortation certainly any who are sick have the 
liberty to call for the elders, and if the Church to 
which they belong is apostolic, it becomes their duty 
to adhere to the request. 

Will every sick one thus complying w'ith the ex- 
hortation be healed ? This depends upon whether tilt; 



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elders perform truly in the name of the Lord the 
act of anointing with oil, and whether they truly pray 
the prayer of faith. "For the prayer of faith shall 
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up." That 
many who are sick and deformed might be restored 
if the Church was what she ought to be, I have not 
the slightest doubt. But it would be impossible to 
pray the prayer of faith out of harmony with the 
Divine will. The prayer would be answered, but the 
request would not be granted. In such a case the 
sick would not recover, for there could be no act of 
faith when God made it clearly known that it was 
not His will that such should be done. 

Such is the case of Jesus's prayer in the garden, 
when He prayed "that if it is possible, let this cup 
pass from Me." He was answered, in that it was 
made known that for man's redemption to be com- 
pleted, the cup could not pass from Him except He 
drink it. Also when Paul prayed for the removing 
of the thorn in his flesh, he was answered; but the 
request was not granted in removing the thorn, but 
promise was given that "My grace shall be suffi- 
cient." 

This being the exhortation that comes to all — 
for if sinners, the promise is they shall be forgiven — 
what is the hope that would inspire any to receive 
the exhortation and act upon it ? Of Jesus it is said, 
"He healed all that were sick that it might be ful- 
filled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, say- 
ing, "Himself took our infirmities and bare our sick- 
nesses." If Jesus Christ has borne the penalty of these 



Divine Heading. ioi 

things — as He plainly tells us He has, and He cer- 
tainly is the best authority we could get — it would be 
far more pleasing to Him, and an act by which His 
name would much more be glorified, for the blessing 
to be accepted than to be rejected. As the true be- 
lievers and followers of Jesus, how dare we disbelieve 
any of His precious teaching? 

Thus having the exhortation, and the foundation 
for our hope being that Jesus bore these things — and 
it adds no weight to Him for us to be released from 
them — what is the means upon His part by which we 
are restored? At one time, when Jesus had received 
the touch of faith upon the hem of His garment, He 
asked, "Who touched Me?" A reason for asking 
the question, He afterwards explains, is because "vir- 
tue is gone out of Me." The virtue is in the Son of 
God, by which all maladies are healed that are re- 
lieved by Divine healing. "As many as touched Him 
were made perfectly whole." "By the name of Jesus 
Christ of Nazareth doth this man stand here before 
you whole." It is in the name of the Lord that elders 
are to anoint with oil those who are sick. So upon 
God's part the means used is the virtue of the atone- 
ment of Jesus Christ upon the cross, "where He, by 
the grace of God, tasted death for every man." 

The means upon the human side is the same as 
that by which any of the effects of the atonement are 
procured ; that is, faith. "That whosoever believeth 
in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life." 
It was by unbelief, which led to disobedience, that 
man lost the favor and communion of God ; and it has 



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ever been, and will ever remain to be, belief that leads 
to obedience, that is the gateway back to Him. "And 
His name, through faith in His name, has made this 
man strong whom ye see and know. Yea, the faith 
which is by him hath given him this perfect sound- 
ness in the presence of you all." "According to thy 
faith, so be it unto thee." "All things are possible 
to him that believeth" "The prayer of faith shall save 
the sick and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he 
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." 

A great many consent to a belief of the truthful- 
ness of the Bible ; but they do not obey its teachings. 
Faith, which brings the blessings of God upon any 
one, is a faith that leads to obedience in doing His 
will. For Jesus is the Author of salvation only to 
those who obey Him. He that disbelieves in the 
atonement of Jesus Christ shuts the door of salvation 
against himself ; for it is alone by faith in this atone- 
ment that sins may be forgiven and the new birth 
experienced. 

He that disbelieves in the baptism of the Holy 
Ghost closes the door of sanctification and the richer 
blessings of the Christian life against himself; for it 
is only by faith that leads to perfect obedience that 
these blessings may be obtained. 

Those who do not believe in Divine healing, or 
that Jesus did "take our infirmities and bare our 
sicknesses," and thereby a way of escape is opened 
to the sick and suffering, close the door of these 
blessings against themselves. 

A great many say they would believe if they saw 



Divine Hkaung. 103 

these things ; but they certainly forget that seeing is 
not believing. If they would transpose their position, 
and believe God's Word, and act upon it, they would 
see it fulfilled. My daughter once said to me, "Papa, 
people think it was wonderful for Jesus to heal me ; 
they might just as well think it wonderful for Him 
to do what He has promised to do/" 



CHAPTER XVII. 
A LOVING EXHORTATION. 

Now, dE)ar one, as you have patiently read the 
few pages of this book, I feel very grateful to you, 
and wish you to accept my sincere thanks for the 
kindness you have shown the author in giving your 
precious time in reading these poorly-constructed 
pages upon this very interesting and precious theme. 
And I am very desirous that, ere you close the book, 
in some way you may be richly rewarded for the 
effort it has cost you, and the time that has been 
occupied on account of the going forth of this little 
volume. 

When I consider the wonderful resources of our 
Heavenly Father's storehouse, I know that no one 
has exhausted the supply, and that, whatever may be 
your experience or attainment, still there may be the 
onward and upward march by which higher moun- 
tain-peaks may be reached, from which grander views 
may be seen in the marvelous domain of Divine 
grace. 

If you are conscious of sins yet unrepented of and 
unforgiven, I ask you to remember Him who took 
your place, and the love He manifested to you when 

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Divine Healing. 105 

He so willingly and glady bore the penalty of your 
sins in His ovfn body on the tree. And can you be 
ungrateful for such love? 

Does not remorse and sorrow fill your heart this 
moment as your remember the grief you must have 
caused Him, as He has for these years so lovingly 
and earnestly entreated you to come unto Him and 
be saved, and made happy in the consciousness of 
His presence when you should hear that sweet mes- 
sage fall from His lips, "Thy sins are all forgiven 
thee." Can you stay away longer? Will you not 
come now? The dear Lord will help you come. If 
you can not say, "Here, Lord, I willingly come," say, 
"Lord, I am willing to be made willing; help me 
now." The moments are passing; the crisis is great. 
Do not, I pray you, let the enemy have the victory. 
Angels are waiting to carry the news. All heaven is 
waiting to receive the message, and join the cele- 
bration song of joy and rejoicing. O, disappoint 
them not; but say, "Lord, I come; please accept me, 
for Jesus' sake." Believe His word, "He that cometh 
to Me I will in no wise cast out." Trust Him fully, 
and the transaction is accomplished, the battle is 
fought, and victory is upon the side of the Lord. 
Praises be to His dear name ! 

Or, if you are a child of God, and know of His 
forgiving love, but have never tarried for the coming 
of the blessed promise of the Father, and have never 
received Him, the beloved Bridegroom of souls, do 
not be satisfied without Him. You want to be with 
the Bride when the glorious Bridegroom comes. 



106 Divine Heaung. 

You want to have oil in your vessels. You wish to 
be fully ready. Do n't delay. Time is precious. The 
hour is coming. Delays are dangerous. You need 
Him so much to assist you in His service now. The 
Churches are so weakly, so skeptical and unbeliev- 
ing, a great many not knowing that there is any 
Holy Ghost, and others denying that there is. O the 
lack of power ! How much we need Him of whom 
it is said, "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy 
Ghost is come upon you !" Tarry, I pray you, till 
you receive Him. May I not tell that one who is 
sickly and deformed that Jesus is passing by? He 
is coming this way. Do you know Him? Is your 
case in His hands? I know it may be hard to sur- 
mount all the skepticism and unbelief of those around 
you. Can you assure yourself that it is more pleas- 
ing to God for you thus to suffer and be disabled by 
these maladies than to be healed by His grace, and 
join the active army of the saints in an aggressive 
warfare against the dead formalities of the Churches 
on one hand, and giants of sin on the other? If you 
have tried medicines and physicians to no avail, put 
yourself once and for all into the hands of the Great 
Physician that disease has never baffled. Put your- 
self in the way of all the help you can. Attend, if 
possible, some Pentecostal meetings. Do not be 
restless and murmuring, but contented and cheerful, 
and use every means to put yourself in the way of 
blessing. Do not desire your healing for a selfish 
end, but for the glory of God, The fact that you are 



Divine Healing. 107 

in a condition to need help will afford an opportunity 
for the name oT Jesus to be glorified by your receiving 
deliverance from Him. Rest yourself continually in 
His presence. Trust Him fully, and He will do the 
best for you, "Who Himself took our infirmities and 
bare our sicknesses." 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, 



CHAPTER I. 



It is the duty of the children of God to bear testi- 
mony to His goodness, and tell, for His glory, what 
great things the Lord has done for them. "Go tell 
what great things the Lord has done for thee," are 
the words of Jesus. 

I wish briefly to tell what the Lord has done for 
me and my dear family, especially along the iine of 
the subject of this book. To God be all the glory! 

Near fifteen years ago, while living at Monrovia, 
Indiana, my mind was especially impressed with the 
subject of Divine healing. Under this impression 
I began earnestly to study the Bible, in order that I 
might know the truth concerning it as it was taught 
therein. So strong had become the convictions of 
my early training and my preconceived notions, that 
it was no little struggle to be willing to launch out 
under the leadership of the Holy Ghost, not knowing 
where the landing might be, but only desirous of 
knowing the truth as it might be revealed. The in- 
vestigation was a long and tedious, one. Weeks and 
months passed by, and no satisfactory conclusions 

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Personal Experiences. 109 

could be reached. The perplexity of the subject only 
increased my g£eat anxiety to know the truth, and 
be able to see perfect harmony in the Scriptural teach- 
ing concerning it. After an investigation of more 
than six months, in which time the Bible and other 
literature bearing upon the subject had been earnestly 
and prayerfully studied, I began to draw my conclu- 
sions as to what was the truth as the Bible taught 
it upon this important doctrine, that was almost en- 
tirely neglected by Christian believers. 

My conclusions were very much as have been por- 
trayed in this book. I could find nothing in the Bible 
but one continuous story of the goodness of God to 
man ; and that this goodness had been revealed all 
along the ages in the restoration of those who were 
sick and suffering. 

At the time my mind was about satisfied as to 
what was the truth as the Bible revealed it, and as 
Jesus and His disciples demonstrated it, my wife was 
taken sick with congestion, with which she had been 
frequently afflicted during all the time we had lived 
together. At this time it was more severe than it 
had ever been before, and baffled the skill of the phy- 
sicians, and she continued to sink under its influence 
until all hope of her recovery from natural resources 
was given up. Her strength was almost gone, the 
color had faded from her cheeks, the cold, clammy 
sweat of death had covered her face, and she, with 
all those present, thought death near at hand. 

I had the care of a babe fifteen months old, by 
whose crib I had sat for two nights without a moment 



no Personal Experiences. 

of sleep. As I was carrying him in the yard, my little 
girl of six summers came to me, looked up into my 
face with the tears running down her cheek, and said, 
"Papa, is mamma dead?" Going into the room, I 
put down the baby, and stepped out of the house into 
a summer kitchen, and fell upon my knees before God 
and prayed, in substance as follows : "O Lord, I have 
endeavored to know the truth of Thy Word, and 
Thou knowest what my convictions are, and what 
my conclusions have been as to its. teaching upon 
Divine healing. If these conclusions are right, and 
if, in Jesus Christ, there is power now to restore the 
sick, please make bare Thy hand, and prove Thyself 
true to Thy promise, and restore my wife." 

My moments were precious. My care at this 
time was great. I could not tarry. I hastened back 
to the room, and resumed the care of the babe. The 
color soon came again to my dear one's face; the 
clammy sweat dried away from her brow, and it be- 
came apparent to all that the crisis was past, and she 
had begun to amend. She rapidly recovered, and 
from that time to this, nearly fifteen years, she has 
had no symptoms of return of this disease, which had 
been so frequent and troublesome before. 



CHAPTER II. 

While living at Plainfield, Indiana, I had a very 
clear impression that I should attend the sessions of 
an approaching quarterly-meeting. I was very busily 
engaged at the time, and it looked as if it was not 
at all likely I could go. But to test the rightfulness 
of the impression, I told the Lord this : That if at the 
time I should go, I should have the money to pay 
my carfare, and my wife would tell me where I was 
impressed to go, I would consider beyond doubt that 
it was right to go. I went on with my work as 
eagerly as I could, and told my wife the conditions 
upon which I should consider it right for me to go. 
She kept telling me she could not tell me where I 
was thinking of going, and begged me to tell her. 
I told her I could not, for one of the evidences of 
the rightfulness of my going was that she should 
tell me the place. The morning before I should have 
started, at the breakfast table she spoke to me, and 
said, "Now I can tell thee where thee should go," 
and mentioned the place. That day I finished a job 
of work, and the man paid me for it. 

The two evidences I had asked had both been ful- 
filled. But I should have started in the morning; it 
is now afternoon. To make the trip, a ten-mile walk 
was necessary, and an accident had befallen me by 

in 



ii2 Personal Experiences. 

which I was almost disabled from walking. The day 
before, in leaving a step-ladder, I had stepped on a 
little block in a way that my weight was thrown on 
the side of my foot, spraining my ankle very badly. 
But what must I do? I had promised to go under 
certain conditions ; these conditions had been met ; 
and I said, "Yes, Lord, I will go." So, getting ready, 
I hobbled to the depot, and boarded the train for 
Indianapolis. While waiting there for a train, my 
ankle pained me so badly I had my shoe off most of 
the time. But when the time arrived, I went on my 
journey as far as I could go on the cars, and started 
to hobble on my ten miles' walk, my ankle still hurt- 
ing me very much. Before I had gone far it seemed 
I could walk better, and somewhere between the place 
of starting and my destination my ankle was entirely 
healed, and no trace of soreness could be found, 
though sought for with great care. 

I attended the services of the quarterly-meeting, 
and returned home to go forward with my work, with 
no trace of any of the effects of my accident, which 
I have no right to believe, under natural causes, 
would have disappeared under less time than four to 
six weeks, if I had not been obedient to the mani- 
festation of duty and trusted the Lord to furnish the 
strength for its accomplishment. 



CHAPTER III. 

While living at Richmond, Indiana, in the spring 
of 1894, my daughter, Lora, was taken very violently 
sick with typhoid pneumonia. Her symptoms were 
of the worst kind from the beginning, and the disease 
was entirely beyond the control of the physicians. 
Lora had often heard me make remarks upon the 
subject of Divine healing, and had read what liter- 
ature we had upon that subject. 

As a parent, I felt duty-bound to inform her of 
the nature of her sickness. While doing so, she said : 
"Papa, all I want is for thee to pray for me. Just go 
and pray, and ask Jesus till He says He will heal me, 
and I shall get well." Upon Sabbath afternoon, when 
no company was present, she said, "Now, papa, we 
are here alone ; let us pray." I, with her mamma and 
two brothers, knelt beside her bed, and all of us 
prayed, asking specially that God would bless her, 
and reveal His grace in such a way that she might 
get well. She also very beautifully and touchingly 
dedicated herself to God, and prayed that He would 
spare her life, that she might recover and live a life 
in His service. 

When we arose from this prayer service, Eddy, 
her oldest brother, then nine years old, was crying. 
She, turning to him, said: "Eddy, what is the matter? 

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114 PERSONAL EXPKRI£NC£S. 

Do n't thee know Jesus says He will do what we ask 
Him to do? We have asked Him that I might get 
well. Thee need not cry; I will get well." 

Soon after the above scene she became very de- 
lirious, and was not rational for several days, during 
which time the disease raged furiously, and, from all 
human appearance, it seemed as if she could not live. 
About two o'clock one morning she became in her 
delirium perfectly beyond our control in getting her 
to take medicine. We sent for the physicians, and 
both were out of the city. Being at the end of any- 
thing we could do, and being almost worn out, we 
left her in care of a neighbor, and my wife and I lay 
down for a little rest, and both went to sleep, and she 
went to sleep, and we all slept for three hours, the 
first sleep any of us had had for three days. When 
we awoke, her mamma went to her bedside; she 
looked up perfectly conscious, and, smiling, said, 
"Mamma, I am not going home now; I will wait 
awhile." The physicians, coming in the morning, 
found her in this conscious state, from which time 
she rapidly recovered, without any of the accompany- 
ing bad conditions generally known in such cases. 
She needed to make no effort in getting the corrup- 
tion off her lungs, but only to get it from her mouth. 
She had no sinking conditions, or night-sweats, and 
in a very few days could sit up in bed, and, but for 
the disturbed condition of the blood-vessels in one 
of her lower limbs, which caused it to be very much 
swollen, she would soon have been up. By means of 
a bandage, by which the swelling was partially con- 



Personal Experiences. 115 

trolled, she was not detained in bed very long, but 
every morning, before leaving the bed, the bandage 
had to be put on to control the swelling. 

Almost a year after her sickness, all of which time 
she had worn this bandage, Walter and Emma Ma- 
lone, of Cleveland, Ohio, were engaged in holding a 
series of revival-meetings at East Main Street 
Friends Church. One day, while speaking to Wal- 
ter, I asked him if he believed in Divine healing. He 
answered, "Yes, I do." I then told him of the con- 
dition of Lora, and how she had been spared by the 
grace of God in answer to our prayers, but was still 
afflicted with her limb, and asked him if he and Emma 
would be willing to pray for her that it might be re- 
stored. He said he would. When I went home I 
told Lora what he had said, and asked her if she 
would be willing for him to pray for her. She soon 
consented, and was willing he should. 

That night we attended the meeting, and after the 
service, in the east room of the yearly meeting house 
at Richmond, Indiana, Walter and Emma Malone, 
Miss Young of North Carolina, Allen Jay, and Dr. 
I. S. Harold, our physician — who knew all about the 
case from the beginning of her sickness — Lora, and 
myself met, and, after Dr. Harold had explained 
Lora's condition, we all knelt in prayer and pre- 
sented her case to Him who so wonderfully revealed 
Himself to be the Great Physician that no disease 
could baffle, when He was here upon earth, and who 
never turned away any suffering one who came in 
faith to Him. 



n6 Personal Experiences. 

When leaving the house after this service, Lora 
said to me, "Papa, I will never put that bandage on 
again ;" and she never did, and in three days her 
limb was perfectly well, and has remained so ever 
since, which has now been more than five years. No 
one can account for the sudden change in her sick- 
ness, or the immediate cure of her limb after nearly 
a year of constant swelling, save by the interposition 
of Divine grace. 



CHAPTER IV. 

While living at Dublin, Indiana, I was compelled 
to move very unexpectedly on account of the prop- 
erty being sold where I was residing. At the time 
I was very busy, as I had engaged to attend a sugar 
orchard, and had just opened it. My duty there pro- 
hibited me from helping move, and my family, with 
help which I had obtained, did the moving. 

When I came home at night to the new quarters, 
I went to the barn to feed, it then being dark; and 
when I had gone up into the loft for feed, I was con- 
scious I was in great danger, as I was not accus- 
tomed to the place, but thought I was exercising 
sufficient care. I soon found, however, I was falling 
to the floor below. 

The loft, being quite high, gave me a good oppor- 
tunity for a hard fall. At first the fall seemed without 
injury, but later I found I had caught my foot under 
me in such a way that the instep was almost crushed. 
I went to bed, and it pained me so much I could not 
rest nor sleep. As I had promised to be back at the 
sugar-camp at midnight, I got up and started much 
sooner than I otherwise should have done ; but it 
was with great difficulty I reached it much after the 
appointed hour. I could only stay a little while until 
I had to go to a house near by and call the man up, 

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n8 Personal Exp^risncss. 

and ask him to take me home, which he did. The 
next day I sat in the house, not being able to put my 
foot to the floor. 

I engaged a man to take my place at the sugar- 
camp, expecting nothing but to be disabled for sev- 
eral days or weeks. That night, before retiring, in 
our devotion my wife prayed very earnestly that the 
injury might be removed, as our condition in many 
ways made it very embarrassing to be disabled. 

When I lay down, my foot ceased to give me any 
pain. I went to sleep, and slept soundly, and in the 
morning was up bright and early, went to the sugar- 
camp, and renewed my duties, to the astonishment 
of all who knew of my accident. I continued my 
duties in all lines of work, which were very pressing, 
without any further disability. To God be all the 
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